This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is ri… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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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