Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Nerds

Quotes about: Nerds

• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Offending, People, Nerd

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

• My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nerd, Definitions, Aphorism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.109, Random House

• 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.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Smart, School

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Nerd, Doe

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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