Quotes Tagged With :nerdiness

Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never....

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

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence....

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

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun....

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced....

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly....

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe....

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation....