"...discoveries we claim come from research are themselves highly accidental. They are the result of undirected tinkering narrated after the fact, when it is dressed up as controlled research...
...America's primary export, it appears, is trial-and-error, and the innovative knowledge attained in such a way...
...American undirected free-enterprise works because it aggressively allows us to capture the randomness of the environment...
...Random tinkering is the path to success..."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
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