Failure Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it…

— Ed Catmull

“Why is the human need to be in control relevant to a discussion of random patterns? Because if events are random, we are not…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there…

— William Eisner

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of focusing on…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Things are rarely as random as they appear”

— Maya Banks

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance…

— Vann Chow

“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it…

— Ed Catmull

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

“A random event, by definition, does not lend itself to explanation, but collections of random events do behave in a highly regular fashion. Imagine…

— Daniel Kahneman