Know-Nothing Know-It-All/Quotes
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for. — The Intellectual Yet Idiot by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Like Sean Carroll, Brian Cox pretends to be a scientist but in reality, he is confused about some very rudimentary facts about modern physics and science in general. — "Brian Cox's incompetence" by Luboš Motl on The Reference Frame blog
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Trader: Amaranth[2] blew up because they only had twelve risk managers. I hired thirteen. — Offshorecomic #263
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The very first time I worked as a secretary at Politburo, my ear caught ironical sense of the term "educated marxist". It turned out that when it was said "an educated marxist", one should understand: "a dolt and babbler". —Boris Bazhanov, Memoirs of the former secretary of Stalin
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