“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb , book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 60

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