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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry ab...more

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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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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

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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

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It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of unde...more

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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates,...more