Anne Charnock > Anne's Quotes

“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums