Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
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The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
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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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Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration.
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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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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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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than out own.
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