Lifehacker Evil Quotes & Sayings

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the "normal," particularly with "bell curve" methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's nothing under the sun as grotesque as cold European courtesy manifested in the third and fourth worlds. — Peter Hoeg

Actions have consequences, I have told you that. Why is that difficult for you to understand? — Aleatha Romig

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence. — Robert Jordan

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. — Chuck Hagel

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. — Ann Patchett

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm. — Jimmy Doolittle

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about which depend upon causes we know absolutely nothing about. — Tom Stoppard

It's bad bein' strange niggers wid white folks. Everybody is aginst yuh." "Dat sho is de truth. De ones de white man know is nice colored folks. De ones he don't know is bad niggers. — Zora Neale Hurston