"In mathematics you don’t…" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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En mathématiques vous ne comprenez pas les choses vous vous y habituez simplement

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Try to be unpredictable and keep your options open”

“The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts”

“The problem with complex systems is that we often only understand them retrospectively”

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