Nassim Nicholas Taleb Pseudo Quotations

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.