Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...