The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric syst… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Unpublished pictures are worth a lot more than published ones.

Never hire an A student unless it is to take exams.

Let me insist that erudition is important to me. It signals genuine intellectual curiosity. It accompanies an open mind and the desire to probe the ideas of others. Above all, an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the simplifications of the five-minute manager, or the philistinism of the overspecialized scholar. Indeed, scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters.