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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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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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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.

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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Born: 1960 (age 65)
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