Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of huma… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

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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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