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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of (strongly built) typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad'. Upon examination, this may be less interesting a concept than it appears at first: Such probability is ridiculously low. But let us carry the reasoning one step beyond. Now that we have found that hero among monkeys, would any reader invest his life's savings on a bet that the monkey would write the 'Odyssey' next?”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Sun Ra
“Those who are thirsty for wisdom
Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom
That quenches their thirst.”
Sun Ra, The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

Raymond Chandler
“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.”
Raymond Chandler

Sun Ra
“I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re. You can call me Mr. Mystery.”
Sun Ra

Sun Ra
“We hold this myth to be potential
Not self-evident but equational
Another Dimension
Of another kind of Living Life”
Sun Ra

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