Quotes About Fragility

In a system, the sacrifices of some units—fragile units, that is, or people—are often necessary for the well-being of other units or the whole.

It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what physicists call "percolation theory," in which the properties of the randomness of the terrain are studied, rather than those of a single element of the terrain.

We sacrifice ourselves in favor of our genes, trading our fragility for their survival.

Things break on a small scale all the time, in order to avoid large-scale generalized catastrophes.

fragility and absence of skin in the game.

robust" is certainly not good enough. In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time—yet our planet has been around for perhaps four billion years and, convincingly, robustness can't just be it: you need perfect robustness for a crack not to end up crashing the system.

The fragility of every startup is necessary for the economy to be antifragile, and that's what makes, among other things, entrepreneurship work: the fragility of individual entrepreneurs and their necessarily high failure rate.

We can mistake the antifragility of the system for that of the individual, when in fact it takes place at the expense of the individual

fragility is in the dosage: falling from the 20th floor is not in the same risk category as falling from your chair.

Antifragile shows how people confuse risk of ruin with variations and fluctuations—a simplification that violates a deeper, more rigorous logic of things.

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La pequeño es hermoso en muchos otros aspectos. Quedémonos, por ahora, con que lo pequeño (como agregado, es decir, como conjunto de unidades pequeñas) es más antifrágil que lo grande: en realidad, lo grande está condenado a caer, una propiedad matemática que explicaré más adelante y que, por desgracia, parece ser universal porque se aplica a las grandes empresas, a los grandes mamíferos y a las grandes administraciones.

For a theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

We have always been crazy but weren't skilled enough to destroy the world. Now we can.

Large animals are more fragile to shocks than small ones—

blindness to fragility, selective memory, and absence of skin in the game.

the total losses for the ten banks would be close to nothing.

I have an enormous faith in Time and History as eventual debunkers of fragility. Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse.

The problem is primarily size, and the fragility that comes from size.

This absence of penalty makes them antifragile at the expense of the society

When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.

Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu'extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n'importe quel moment.

It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge.

The effect of the leverage is that a small loss would be compounded and would wipe him out.