Nassim Nicholas Taleb Randomness Quotations

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...