Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Wikiquote·
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Wikimedia Commons, Sarah Josephine Taleb (CC BY)
This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters — you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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