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"If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt."
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humor
randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
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randomness
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Orhan Pamuk |
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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science
randomness
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James Gleick |
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For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.
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order
randomness
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Stanisław Lem |
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Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled to leave his wife and children, who were the major part of his old, rational world. My own response to the wild unpredictability of the universe has been to write stories, to play the piano, to read, listen to music, look at paintings - not that the world may become explainable and reasonable but that I may rejoice in the freedom which unaccountability gives us.
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randomness
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
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randomness
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Frank Herbert |
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Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking - and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
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critical-thinking
randomness
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Steven Johnson |
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The genome is as complicated and indeterminate as ordinary life, because it is ordinary life. This should come as a relief. Simple determinism, whether of the genetics or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
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humanity
life
randomness
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Matt Ridley |
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If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.
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rationality
randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.
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poetry
communication
being
randomness
rilke
thing-poem
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.
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randomness
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Donna Leon |
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I know that a lot of our successes came because we had pure intentions and great talent, and we did a lot of things right, but I also believe that attributing our successes solely to our own intelligence, without acknowledging the role of accidental events, diminishes us.
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success
randomness
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Ed Catmull |