Humorous Sayings

6,846 sayings found from the Contemporary era

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb circa 2010
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If you're busy at work odds are you will eventually be replaced by a robot.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2023
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Sophisticated minds adopt simplified lifestyles.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2023
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The good life is simple. Don't f*ck it up by making it complicated.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2023
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I like Mondays more than I like lazy Sundays. I live for this sh*t.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2023
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality – without exploiting them for fun and profit.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
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Banks hire dull people and train them to be even more dull.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007
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Please, don't drive a school bus blindfolded.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007
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Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a ga…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012
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My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012
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Journalists make me feel dirty.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
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Thinking is for showing off.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
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