If you hear a prominent economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.
He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said f...
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