Quotes About Time

What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high-paying professions; in other words it is perfectly compatible with his non-middle-class work ethic. Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics, Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal

Practitioners don't write; they do. Birds fly and those who lecture them are the ones who write their story. So it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position

it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

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.

What survives must be good at serving some (mostly hidden) purpose that time can see but our eyes and logical faculties can't capture.

cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

In general, positive Black Swans take time to show their effect while negative ones happen very quickly—it is much easier and much faster to destroy than to build.

longer-term predictions are more reliable than short-term ones, given that one can be quite certain that what is Black Swan–prone will be eventually swallowed by history since time augments the probability of such an event.

in the presence of nonlinearities, the longer the forecast the worse its accuracy.

It is true that 1,000 days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong.

This little bit of uncertainty might make the diner relax and forget the time pressures.

that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

Everything nonstable or breakable has had ample chance to break over time.

When we think of tomorrow, we just project it as another yesterday.

you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

from cramming my day with appointments

Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.

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.

later legitimized by some type of formalization. The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.

Siempre es preferible optar por aquellas cosas que funcionan desde hace mucho tiempo, pues es más probable que ya hayan alcanzado su estado ergódico. Y, de todos modos, en el peor de los casos, el problema sería que no sabemos cuánto durarán.* Recordemos que la carga de la prueba recae en quien perturba un sistema complejo y no en la persona que protege el statu quo.

The longer we had to wait for it, the more severe it would be.

How was your year?" brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.