“Things always become obvious after the fact”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Last update March 29, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Things always become obvious after the fact" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb196

Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former t… 1960

Related quotes

“That was the way of things, after all. Children had to grow up. They did not always become what others wanted.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods

Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 166)

“He was not accustomed to thinking about these things so bluntly, but the facts were as obvious as they were painful.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 21 (p. 181)

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”

Jerome David Salinger book Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)

“The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.”

Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)

“The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms… non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.”

Ryan C. Gordon (1978) Computer programmer

Quoted in, "Chat with Ryan Gordon" http://web.archive.org/web/20010502182109/http://www.descent-3.com/pad/news/16.html Chrono's Pad (2001-02-11)

“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.”

David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

“It's always the same thing, one war after another”

Karel Čapek R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose. note: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Source: Creative Death", p. 5

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Things always become obvious after the fact”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Nassim Nicholas Taleb196

Related quotes

Related topics