The problem with academics is that they really think that n… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The problem with academics is that they really think that nonacademics find them more intelligent than themselves.

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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The problem with academics is that they really think that nonacademics find them more intelligent than themselves. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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