“Don’t Cross a River” – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

„Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.“

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, known for his work on uncertainty, risk assessment, and randomness.

The quote warns against confusing averages with safety, especially when risks and conditions are uneven.


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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, essayist, and former trader who gained worldwide recognition for his books on chance, randomness, and uncertainty, especially the "Incerto" series. He specializes in the role of extreme events and non-linearities in complex systems and critiques conventional approaches in economics and statistics.

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"Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it." Friedrich Nietzsche
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