{"quotes":[{"text":"The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["4chan","atheism","empiricism","nerd","nerdiness","nerds","pitfalls-of-bad-thinking","rationalism","rationalists","reddit","white-male-privilege","white-privilege","wisdom","wisdom-vs-nerds"],"id":201904,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["art","autism","details","intuition","nerd","nerdiness","nerds","poetry","wisdom","wisdom-vs-nerds"],"id":385476,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["autism","intellectual-sophistication","internet","irony","nerd","nerdery","nerdiness","nerds","post-ironic","post-modern","post-modernism","reddit","sophistication","wisdom-vs-nerds","wit"],"id":445774,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}