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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

You Seriously Take Unskilled Alan

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Reality Equal Opera Fancy Cannot

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Performance Information Down Human

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Done Fact Legitimate Makes Bebop

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

Day Sheep Movies Talk Goats Feed

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.'

Eyes Mind Terrorism Brilliant Leap

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Religion Name Strange More Wonderful

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

Family Me Better Friends Career

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Miguel de Icaza

Learning Out Linux Rolling Customers

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

Michelle MacLaren

Love Great Amazing Enough Television

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Song Advice Same Always Sing Lyric

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

Learning Myself Mistakes Trying You

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

Relationship Together People Moments

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