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ALBERT EINSTEIN

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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In 1976, Carlo M. Cipolla, professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity. We (still) grossly underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril.

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