Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, p.15, Random House

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