Quotes About Vulnerability

The worst punishment was his state of helplessness in the face of risks and unfairness.

while the bulk of their risks came from outside their models.

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

The distribution was massively skewed, with the bulk of the deaths coming from birth and childhood mortality.

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

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

was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

to accept the fact that I am rather emotional.

Thus they become easily prone to manipulation by lobbyists

One of life's machinations is to make some people both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and deprived of hope.

fragility—which had been lacking a technical definition—could be expressed as what does not like volatility, and that what does not like volatility does not like randomness, uncertainty, disorder

I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.

they remained fragile to the emotional toll from the compliments they did not get

shame-free policy is maximal transparency, even transparency of intentions.

Someone who predicts will be fragile to prediction errors.

In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.

One of the most misunderstood aspects of a Gaussian is its fragility and vulnerability in the estimation of tail events. The odds of a 4 sigma move are twice that of a 4.15 sigma. The odds of a 20 sigma are a trillion times higher than those of a 21 sigma! It means that a small measurement error of the sigma will lead to a massive underestimation of the probability. We can be a trillion times wrong about some events.

If you lie to me, keep lying; don't hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.

do not try to predict precise Black Swans—it tends to make you more vulnerable to the ones you did not predict.

exposed to a major blowup without being aware of it

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck. Consider

The world of contagion is so underestimated!