Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.