Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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