Randomness Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

12 Randomness quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb’s 12 thoughts on randomness cut straight to the core of uncertainty, offering sharp insights that challenge how we view chance and decision‑making.

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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

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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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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

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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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“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and…

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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But…

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When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in…

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“The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes…

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Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't…

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“Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond…

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“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist…

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To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using…

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In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large…

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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the…

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Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

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“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

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“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip…

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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money…

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“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking…

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“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they…

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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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