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“Any reading of the history of science would show that almost all the smart things that have been proven by science appeared like lunacies at the time they were first discovered.”
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.”
― 1984
― 1984
“From the very beginning,” he pronounced, “you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; that is a law of nature.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“When you’ve thought of everything you should, and done everything you need to, then let whatever happens happen.”
― The Dark Forest
― The Dark Forest
“His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy.”
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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