Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say,… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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