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" Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly. "
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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 about their grades but to enjoy learning. "
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" The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. "
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" I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. "
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