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“No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.”
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
― Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.”
― The Unabomber Manifesto: A Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
― The Unabomber Manifesto: A Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
“Well, I think that what used to be called, centuries ago, "wage slavery" is intolerable. And I don't think people ought to be forced to rent themselves in order to survive. I think that the economic institutions ought to be run democratically, by their participants, by the communities in which they exist, and so on; and I think basically through various kinds of free association.”
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“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*....
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so--for profit, of course.
*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so--for profit, of course.
*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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