They will envy you for your success your wealth for your intelligence for your looks for your status but rarely for your wisdom.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication this nerdification to put it bluntly is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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Just as no monkey is as goodlooking as the ugliest of humans no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
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