nerdiness

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
bd7f3b5	If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.	poetry wisdom details autism wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness intuition nerds nerd	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9004430	"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."	irony intellectual-sophistication post-ironic sophistication post-modern post-modernism nerdery reddit wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness nerds nerd internet wit	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
fc3ad15	Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.	humor ray-bradbury nerdiness science-fiction	Junot Díaz
b7baf78	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.	intelligence wisdom iq wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness nerds nerd	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
337c8ab	"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."	politics patriotic nerdiness politics-of-the-united-states opinion patriotism nerds nerd	Sarah Vowell
2e954ba	The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.	wisdom rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness pitfalls-of-bad-thinking empiricism white-privilege atheism nerds nerd	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ba398d9	...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.	internet-addiction modern-values modernity-is-a-sickness robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness nerdiness nerds fragility nerd modernity	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
7ce4ba6	Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.	nerdiness	Ben Aaronovitch
706046b	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.	autism nerdiness nerds nerd modernity	Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

poetry wisdom details autism wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness intuition nerds nerd

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

9004430

"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."

irony intellectual-sophistication post-ironic sophistication post-modern post-modernism nerdery reddit wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness nerds nerd internet wit

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

fc3ad15

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

humor ray-bradbury nerdiness science-fiction

Junot Díaz

b7baf78

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.

intelligence wisdom iq wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness nerds nerd

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

337c8ab

"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."

politics patriotic nerdiness politics-of-the-united-states opinion patriotism nerds nerd

Sarah Vowell

2e954ba

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

wisdom rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness pitfalls-of-bad-thinking empiricism white-privilege atheism nerds nerd

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

ba398d9

...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.

internet-addiction modern-values modernity-is-a-sickness robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness nerdiness nerds fragility nerd modernity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7ce4ba6

Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.

nerdiness

Ben Aaronovitch

706046b

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.

autism nerdiness nerds nerd modernity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb