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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.

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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing...

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You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

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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 draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Born: 1960 (age 62)
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