Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

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"Ce n'est pas l'estimation que vous faites qui compte mais l'erreur que vous faites en pensant même que vous pouvez estimer"

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“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate t...”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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