A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

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.

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

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

...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.