Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Jack McDevitt
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1960 – present
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American New York Polytech professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty.
"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point."
Jack McDevitt
1935 – present
Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books concern either galactic relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase or superluminal space pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins. McDevitt has received numerous nominations for Hugo, Nebula, and John W.
"Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions…"
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