We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Mini who’s who:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb : Lebanese Scientist
Born: 1960