The Black Swan
Quotes
- History does not crawl, it leaps.
- A black swan is an event that has three attributes: it is an anomaly, it has an extreme impact, and despite its anomaly status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact.
- We tend to overestimate what we know and underestimate what we don't know.
Date of publication: 14 May 2024
Updated: 15 November 2026
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Genre: Popular science literature
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