"Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant."
— Intelligence

January 1, 1970

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), Epistemology and Subtractive Knowledge, p. 78.