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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Apr 2017

      How to tell when someone is really good at something: ask who's better.

      12 replies 116 retweets 424 likes
    2. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 8 Apr 2017
      Replying to @paulg

      Michel de Montaigne made much the same point in the 16th century.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 8 Apr 2017
      Replying to @MathPrinceps

      Can you find the quote? I'd be very interested to see what he said.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 8 Apr 2017
      Replying to @paulg

      Yes, certainly. I'm far from my copy of his essays at the moment, but will cite him properly as soon as I can.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 8 Apr 2017
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      I believe the key passage belongs to his essay "On Practice." But I must trust to memory for this, and may be wrong.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 8 Apr 2017
      Replying to @MathPrinceps @paulg

      Also, here's Conan Doyle, echoing La Rochefoucauld: "Mediocrity knows nothing greater than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 8 Apr 2017
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      Paul Graham Retweeted Paul Graham

      I think you may be responding to a different idea than I meant.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/850458890579976193 …

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      Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
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      Modest people may demur when asked if they're good at something, but if you ask who's better than them, they can't bring themselves to lie.
      5:58 AM - 8 Apr 2017
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        1. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 8 Apr 2017
          Replying to @paulg

          Would you consider G H Hardy a modest man? He himself did not. Yet he placed Ramanujan and Hilbert much higher than himself.

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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 8 Apr 2017
          Replying to @MathPrinceps

          I'm not saying you're mistaken, just that this is a different idea than I was talking about.

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