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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
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Unless we manipulate our surroundings, we have as little control over what and whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our hearts.
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Corollary to Moore’s Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.
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Never rid anyone of an illusion unless you can replace it in his mind with another illusion. (But don’t work too hard on it; the replacement illusion does not even have to be more convincing than the initial one.)
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The tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and, what’s worse, the opposite.
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The fool views himself more unique, and others more generic; the wise views himself more generic and others more unique.
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What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands.
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The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits.
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The role of the media is best seen in the journey from Cato the Elder to a modern politician. Do some extrapolation if you want to be scared.
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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
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Most info-web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people’s heads.
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Finer men tolerate others’ small inconsistencies though not the large ones; the weak tolerate others’ large inconsistencies though not small ones.
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Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undetected, and undetectable order; but order itself is indistinguishable from artful randomness.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 审美
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艺术是跟未被观察到的事物进行的单向交谈。
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伯努瓦·曼德勃罗的天才就在于，不必倚仗完美的形式，也能达到美学上的质朴。
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美会因毫不羞耻的缺乏规律和形之于外的错误得到强化和扩展。
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对“进步”的理解：我们所谓“丑陋”的地方都是现代的、人造的（例如纽瓦克），不是自然的或者历史的（例如罗马）。
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我们喜欢不完美—恰如其分的不完美，我们会为原创艺术品和充满错误的初始版本付大价钱。
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绝大多数人需要听到别人说“这是很美的艺术”才会跟着说“这是很美的艺术”；有些人需要听到两个人或者更多的人这样说，他自己才会跟着说。
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穆太奈比宣称自己是最伟大的阿拉伯诗人，他是在最伟大的阿拉伯诗歌里这么说的。
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