The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom intelligence nerd nerds truths iq nerdery
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: imagination art genius criticism artist academia nerd nerds genius-stupidity critics nerdery
I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the way to the Maine border on their first New Hampshire meet and greet. I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickinson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People," Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising," and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones. After all, the United States is the greatest country on earth dealing with the most complicated problems in the history of the world--poverty, pollution, justice, Jerusalem. What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes.
Sarah VowellTag: politics intelligence patriotism patriotic opinion nerd nerds nerdiness politics-of-the-united-states
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: humor wisdom nerd nerds sense-of-humor nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wit sophistication internet nerd nerds irony post-modernism autism nerdiness post-ironic post-modern nerdery wisdom-vs-nerds intellectual-sophistication reddit
...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: academia nerd nerds modernity autism nerdiness
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.
Tag: wisdom intelligence nerd nerds autism nerdiness iq wisdom-vs-nerds
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom atheism nerd nerds rationalism empiricism nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds reddit 4chan pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalists white-male-privilege white-privilege
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom art poetry intuition nerd nerds autism details nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
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