"Cities and Ambition" (Paul Graham)

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<p>[Cities</a> and Ambition](<a href=“http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html]Cities”>Cities and Ambition) </p>

<p>“As of this writing, Cambridge seems to be the intellectual capital of the world. I realize that seems a preposterous claim. What makes it true is that it’s more preposterous to claim about anywhere else.”</p>

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<p>Send him to Seattle. We’ll show him the intellectual capital of the world :D</p>

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<p>If the essay is a sample of the intellectual level of Cambridge, he disproves his own hypothesis. It’s a lot more like a blog entry than an essay meant to offer some proof of a verifiable assertion.</p>