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{{quote|"''I take my inclusion on the banned book list as a massive compliment.''"|'''[http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1537267520071015 J.K. Rowling]'''}}
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{{quote|''I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless,''<br />
{{quote|''I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless,''
''('Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous.)''|'''Lily Allen''', ''"The Fear"''}}
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{{quote|"''The more you hate it, the stronger it gets.''"|'''[[Rules of the Internet|Rule 19 of the Internet]]'''}}
{{quote|"''The more you hate it, the stronger it gets.''"|'''[[Rules of the Internet|Rule 19 of the Internet]]'''}}

{{quote|Post Scriptum: This position caused me to get 000s of harrassing posts from U.K. journos [...] 1) They can’t get me to lose a “job” or affect my income (even if I loved them they don’t have $$ to give, anyway), 2) They can’t sue me over here (recall, America), though I enjoy lawsuits & confrontation, 3) They can’t stop people from reading my books ([[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|IYIs]] are a tiny minority of book buyers), 4) Their random pop-psych labels such as “childish”, “rude”, “narcissistic”, “toxic masculinity” “lacking in self confidence”, or some newly diagnosed psychological disorder by the BBC just to repress dissent fail to convince, 5) They have increased my twitter following (in spite of ~1000 blocks), 6) They can’t reach my mother because someone is instructed to pick up the phone and confuse them in Levantine, 7) What people think of me has never been my concern (truth & integrity come before reputation).
|'''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''[http://medium.com/@nntaleb/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.]''}}
{{quote|@SoniaRothwell> We've made a collective decision to bin @NNTaleb's pop risk book because of his behaviour towards @wmarybeard.
@nntaleb> Please ban all my "pop risk" books. Enact rules to make them illegal on campus. Please put the burning on youtube, please!
@jackmurphylive> Anti fragility in action, for the guy who popularized the term.
|[http://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/894300291151134721 from] Twitter }}



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Latest revision as of 08:00, 12 August 2017
"I take my inclusion on the banned book list as a massive compliment."
—J.K. Rowling

I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless,

('Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous.)
—Lily Allen, "The Fear"
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
—Federico Fellini
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
—Brendan Behan
"In other words, I drew a weird, confusing cartoon that no one got and that wasn't funny, and went on to even greater fame and fortune. I love this country."
—Gary Larson, about "Cow Tools"
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
—Andy Warhol
"The big news for the past two days is the mass suicide in Guyana of a cult led by somebody named Jim Jones. It's costing the U.S. government $8 million to remove all the bodies and bring them back. They'd put cyanide in grape-flavored Kool-Aid. (laughs) Just think, if they'd used Campbell's Soup I'd be on every news show, everyone would be asking me about it. But Kool-Aid was always a hippie thing."
—Andy Warhol
"The more you hate it, the stronger it gets."
—Rule 19 of the Internet

Post Scriptum: This position caused me to get 000s of harrassing posts from U.K. journos [...] 1) They can’t get me to lose a “job” or affect my income (even if I loved them they don’t have $$ to give, anyway), 2) They can’t sue me over here (recall, America), though I enjoy lawsuits & confrontation, 3) They can’t stop people from reading my books (IYIs are a tiny minority of book buyers), 4) Their random pop-psych labels such as “childish”, “rude”, “narcissistic”, “toxic masculinity” “lacking in self confidence”, or some newly diagnosed psychological disorder by the BBC just to repress dissent fail to convince, 5) They have increased my twitter following (in spite of ~1000 blocks), 6) They can’t reach my mother because someone is instructed to pick up the phone and confuse them in Levantine, 7) What people think of me has never been my concern (truth & integrity come before reputation).

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.

@SoniaRothwell> We've made a collective decision to bin @NNTaleb's pop risk book because of his behaviour towards @wmarybeard.
@nntaleb> Please ban all my "pop risk" books. Enact rules to make them illegal on campus. Please put the burning on youtube, please!
@jackmurphylive> Anti fragility in action, for the guy who popularized the term.

—from Twitter


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