Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Randomness Quotes

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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

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