I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart an… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I suspect that IQ, SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more "efficient."

"It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are "wrong," by betting against his representation of the world."

The exponential information age is like a verbally incontinent person: he talks more and more as fewer and fewer people listen.