"While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Practice Quotes #Information Quotes #Theory Quotes

“I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.”
“Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.”
“I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
“Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”
“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing
“I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky.”
“Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.”
“I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.”

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