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 and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas TalebPeople are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWhat organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb