You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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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Real life (vita beata) is when your choices correspond to your duties.

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You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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