Our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according to our current knowledge)-and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated.

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Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House/Allen Lane, 2007, prologue.

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