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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness i...more

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The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornith...more

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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

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What I learned on my own I still remember

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive id...more