Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
2) This reminds me of a novel by Elias Canetti: an erudite scholar lives in a library, in emotional communion with his 20K books. Then he marries his maid who finds his books superfluous... I used to go postal at pple who, seeing me holding a book wd ask if it was "useful". — PolitiTweet.org
