Gregory Muller

“Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The notion of standard deviation is meaningless outside of Mediocristan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“The very word essay conveys the tentative, the speculative, and the nondefinitive.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable