Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

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"Pour comprendre l'avenir, vous n'avez pas besoin de jargon techno-autistique, mais de la sagesse des anciens."

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“The lack of data is a major source of uncertainty, not lack of theory”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

“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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