Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 78
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