Quotes About Sophistication

-"you dress to impress"-"No Angel, I undress to impress

Be charming at any age.

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold—it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction—that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity (from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention).

The IYI subscribes to The New Yorker, a journal designed so philistines can learn to fake a conversation about evolution, neurosomething, cognitive biases, and quantum mechanics.

The number of cultured people dropped below some critical level. Suddenly the place became a vacuum. Brain drain is hard to reverse, and some of the old refinement may be lost forever.

science is about how not to be a sucker.

Our sophistication continuously puts us ahead of ourselves, creating things we are less and less capable of understanding.

There is, in the Black Swan zone, a limit to knowledge that can never be reached, no matter how sophisticated statistical and risk management science ever gets.

as societies gain in complexity, with more and more "cutting edge" sophistication in them, and more and more specialization, they become increasingly vulnerable to collapse.

innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

This reasoning shows that sophistication can, at some level, cause degradation, what economists call "negative utility.

simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.

regardless of their levels of sophistication and learning.

To our great excitement, we had proof after proof that traders had vastly, vastly more sophistication than the formula. And their sophistication preceded the formula by at least a century.

o sucesso de um escritor, uma empresa, uma ideia, um músico, um atleta, tem de ser planetário, ou equivale a nada. Esses efeitos pioram a previsibilidade, já que hoje quase tudo na vida socioeconômica é dominado por Cisnes Negros. Nossa sofisticação faz com que continuamente coloquemos os carros na frente dos bois, criando coisas que somos cada vez menos capazes de compreender

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity?

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La belleza característica del dandi consiste sobre todo en la frialdad que se dimana de la inquebrantable resolución de no conmoverse;

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.