Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusab… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.

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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