The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at expla… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The intellectshual world is populated by a collection of people who are much better at explaining than understanding.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Remember that just as surgeons don't look like surgeons strong men don't look like athletes in ancient Greek sculptures.

The only problem with the last laugh is that the winner has to laugh alone.