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

The only thing a college teacher of classics can reliably teach you is to become a college teacher of classics.

Maximizing the probability of winning does not lead to maximizing the expectation from the game when one's strategy may include , i.e., a small chance of a large loss and a large chance of a small win. If you engaged in a Russian Roulette-type strategy... you are likely to show up as the winner in almost all samples—except in the year when you are dead.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....