History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture, with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) lik… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture, with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) like to believe in the predictable, small incremental progression.
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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You can change the mind of someone who says "no"; never the minds of those who say nothing.
We practitioners and quants aren’t too fazed by remarks on the part of academics — it would be like prostitutes listening to technical commentary by nuns.
