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Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you’re not really questioning—you’re complaining.
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
1. Il vaut mieux risquer l’audace plutôt que la banalité. 2. Un mauvais plan vaut mieux que pas de plan du tout. 3. Les marchés concurrentiels sont destructeurs de profits. 4. Les ventes comptent tout autant que le produit.
Alas, we are not manufactured, in our current edition of the human race, to understand abstract matters—we need context. Randomness and uncertainty are abstractions. We respect what has happened, ignoring what could have happened. In other words, we are naturally shallow and superficial—and we do not know it. This is not a psychological problem; it comes from the main property of information. The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy. In the same way, beaming light on the unseen is costly in both computational and mental effort.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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