“When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb , book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 102

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