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Likely Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
- If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
- The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because…
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