"There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk."

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Source : "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#Games Quotes #Risk Quotes #Uncertainty Quotes

“To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.”
“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”
“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”
“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.”
“I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.”
“On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.”
“The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]”
“H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game of jacks, where those complicated little objects can be thrown together in all different ways.”

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