6 quotes
Researchers of the brain believe that mathematical truths make little sense to our mind, particularly..the examination of random outcomes.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
For me, history is of use... by being able to steal the ideas of others and leverage them, correct the mental defect that seems to block my ability to learn from others.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
Popper believed that any idea of Utopia is necessarily closed owing to the fact that it chokes its own refutations. The simple notion of a good society that cannot be left open for falsification is totalitarian. I learned from Popper, in addition to the difference between an open and a closed society, that between an open and a closed mind.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
Mathematically, progress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information, which means that it is optimal for someone, when in doubt, to systematically reject the new idea, information, or method.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)