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28c1ff0
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Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
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misattributed-to-bill-gates
work
nerds
nerd
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Charles J. Sykes |
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bd7f3b5
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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
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poetry
wisdom
details
autism
wisdom-vs-nerds
nerdiness
intuition
nerds
nerd
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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713b3c8
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I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.
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nerd
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Cassandra Clare |
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66dd6a1
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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humor
intelligence
wisdom
autism
wisdom-vs-nerdiness
sense-of-humor
nerds
nerd
wit
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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9004430
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"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."
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irony
intellectual-sophistication
post-ironic
sophistication
post-modern
post-modernism
nerdery
reddit
wisdom-vs-nerds
nerdiness
nerds
nerd
internet
wit
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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79313b3
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"Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room. Kendra turned to face her brother. "You caught me," she congratulated him. "I'm reading." "I bet the librarians back home are panicking. Summer vacation, and no Kendra Sorenson to keep them in business. Have they been sending you letters?" "Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot." Kendra turned back to the journal, flipping to a random page. Seth took a seat on his bed across from her. "Kendra, seriously, I can sort of see reading a cool book for fun, but dusty old journals? Really? Has anybody told you there are magical creatures out there?" He pointed out the window. "Has anybody told you some of those creatures can eat you?" Kendra responded. "I'm not reading these just for fun. They have good info." "like what? Patton and Lena smooching?" Kendra rolled her eyes. "I'm not telling. You'll end up in a tar pit." "There's a tar pit?" he said, perking up. "Where?"
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library
reading
nerd
curiosity
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Brandon Mull |
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71c60e3
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
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criticism
imagination
genius-stupidity
nerdery
critics
art
genius
nerds
nerd
artist
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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b7baf78
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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.
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intelligence
wisdom
iq
wisdom-vs-nerds
nerdiness
nerds
nerd
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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e93de64
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"Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot."
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nerd
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Brandon Mull |
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337c8ab
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"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."
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politics
patriotic
nerdiness
politics-of-the-united-states
opinion
patriotism
nerds
nerd
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Sarah Vowell |
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2e954ba
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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wisdom
rationalism
rationalists
reddit
white-male-privilege
wisdom-vs-nerds
nerdiness
pitfalls-of-bad-thinking
empiricism
white-privilege
atheism
nerds
nerd
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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ba398d9
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...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.
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internet-addiction
modern-values
modernity-is-a-sickness
robustness
wisdom-vs-nerdiness
nerdiness
nerds
fragility
nerd
modernity
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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6942936
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Let's see.' She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. 'You're in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.' I hand Persephone the Forbidden Room card and keep Room Not Found for myself. She looks at me oddly.
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nerd
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Charles Stross |
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e408af5
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After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.
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work
study
nerd
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Sylvia Plath |
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2f3a6dc
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"I love the smell of old books," Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs." --
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reading
dream
books
mothballs
paper-mill
smell-of-books
vintage
smell
old
surreal
nerd
wood
nostalgia
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Rebecca McNutt |
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a1028d9
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"Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here." "I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said. "Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked? "Perfect."
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nerd
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Jim Butcher |
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a50f21c
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"Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. "You ever read Hamlet?" he questioned. "I tried to when I was in high school," said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. "I mean, it's expected that everyone should like Shakespeare's books and plays, but I just...." her words faltered when she noticed him laughing to himself. "What's so funny, Sir?" she added, slightly offended. "...Oh, I'm not laughing at you, just with you," said the store owner. "Most people who say they love Shakespeare only pretend to love his work. You're honest Ma'am, that's all. You see, the reason you and so many others are put-off by reading Shakespeare is because reading his words on paper, and seeing his words in action, in a play as they were meant to be seen, are two separate things... and if you can find a way to relate his plays to yourself, you'll enjoy them so much more because you'll feel connected to them. Take Hamlet for example - Hamlet himself is grieving over a loss in his life, and everyone is telling him to move on but no matter how hard he tries to, in the end all he can do is to get even with the ones who betrayed him." "...Wow, when you put it that way... sure, I think I'll buy a copy just to try reading, why not?" Mandy replied with a smile."
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revenge
shakespeare
grief
loss
reading
diffcult
dog-eared
bookstore
coffee
tea
geek
nerd
hamlet
classic
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Rebecca McNutt |
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6bc4282
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His in-house intercom greeted him with a cheery 'Welcome home, Bart,' and his server droid - custom-made to replicate Princess Leia, classic 'Star Wars,' slave-girl mode (he was a nerd, but he was still a guy) - strolled out to offer him his favorite orange fizzy with crushed ice.
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princess-leia
in-death-series
nerd
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J.D. Robb |
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702a424
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"Obviously one of us went to Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and one of us didn't." "Obviously one of is a total nerd."
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x-men
nerd
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Bryan Lee O'Malley |
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a836b02
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Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.
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nerd
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Philip K. Dick |
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706046b
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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.
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autism
nerdiness
nerds
nerd
modernity
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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0228696
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"Listen up, nerd," he said, glancing over his shoulder while I wrapped myself against his back. "Man, you feel good like that." "Your huge brain is working at a wavelength I don't understand. Repeat what you just said in a dumb way so I'll understand what my being a nerd has to do with you liking this," I said, wiggling my hips against him before raking his back with my breasts. After giving me a groan followed by a naughty grin, Cooper sighed. "I can't even remember what the hell we were talking about," he said, wrapping my arms tighter around him. "Oh, yeah, you being a nerd. So don't worry about getting carded. The Kirk in Whiskey Kirk's is my pop and he doesn't care if you get wasted. He doesn't believe in laws." "I'm not drinking." "Farah, you need to relax and enjoy life." "I come from a long line of drunks and addicts, so I'm not relaxing and enjoying life if it means I become like my loser relatives." Cooper glanced back at me and smiled. "Did you take a shower before I showed up because you're hella feisty?" "Do they have good food at this bar?" I asked, ignoring his question. "Burgers, hot wings, only the best bar food in Kentucky. You just keep holding on while I see if I can concentrate with your tits pushed up against me like that." "I had them pushed up the other night and you concentrated fine." "That's because you were wearing your uniform and I forgot you had tits. No forgetting today." "If you ever want to be friends with them, you really need to stop calling them tits. They don't like that." "Yes, mam," he said, laughing as he pushed off and drove away from the apartment."
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tits
nerd
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Bijou Hunter |