Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters — Quotes

Imported from: Clippings/Klaas-Fluke.md

Notes built from this: free-will-and-moral-responsibility, genes-are-not-destiny, klaas-fluke, narrative-bias

Author: Brian Klaas Source: Goodreads

45 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Book page: klaas-fluke

• “We control nothing, but influence everything…”
• “Perhaps we can finally accept that we will…”
• “Rather than rewarding intellectual humility, we too often…”
• “Whenever we revisit the dog-eared pages within our…”
• “This is the paradox of twenty-first-century life: staggering…”
• “Modern society is a complex system…”
• “We are going to die, and that makes…”
• “Microscopic accident…”
• “The professional study of humanity is detached from…”
• “But if libertarian free will is a delusion…”
• “Nobody introduces themselves as “a human” at a…”
• “What’s perhaps most surprising, however, is that a…”
• “In a world of rapid change, many of…”
• “This is a serious problem for modern data…”
• “Our intertwined social world is too complex for…”
• “That’s not to pick on social science. I…”
• “Hegel and Marx were wrong: nature and complex…”
• “In the twentieth century, there was just one…”
• “Once you accept that entangled existence, it becomes…”
• “Following the shortcut, the male beetles began trying…”
• “We cling to the idea that what matters…”
• “By chasing control, we trap ourselves. By letting…”
• “Phrase. “It’s small,” she says, “but it flies…”
• “We should learn our lesson, build more slack…”
• “Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that…”
• “Embracing the beauty of uncertainty means a bit…”
• “In a world driven by a sense that…”
• “Dictators may be ruthless, but, by golly, they…”
• “You’ll be astounded to realize how much of…”
• “Your head is older than your feet…”
• “Nudge.” We are seduced by pundits and data…”
• “When the world changes, the past can’t always…”
• “We’ve built a world that seems regular and…”
• “To us, the world appears convergent, until we…”
• “That means that we control far less of…”
• “We now know that many systems are chaotic—so…”
• “It’s akin to proclaiming the Titanic’s maiden voyage…”
• “Sentient beings, including humans, are prediction machines…”
• “Each individual controls almost nothing, but influences almost…”
• “There have only been about fifty-seven generations since…”
• “Them. It can be comforting to accept what…”
• “We may control nothing, but we influence everything…”
• “If we want to maximize the chance that…”
• “This phenomenon is particularly prominent in market analysis…”
• “The economist and former governor of the Bank…”