January 3, 2015

Pocket paradigms

The difference between being intelligent and being smart is that the former only requires data, the latter requires judgment in how you use it. The capital is full of intelligent people but short on smart ones. - Sam Smith

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sapir would have seen this as the difference between genuine culture which could be viewed as self actualization and spurious culture which is self exploitation. You can't get around the fact of an 8 hour day, but in a spurious culture you will never develop beyond the level of a work horse.