Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Randomness Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

View all Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb