Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans."
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Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness."
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