"Intelligence without…" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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L'intelligence sans principe est de la chance, pas de l'habileté

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“The robustness of an idea is tested by failure, not success”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A failure is not an error”

“When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits”

“Risk is what remains when you think you have accounted for everything”

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