The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she’d just slammed three doubles of tequila and needed a fistfight chaser.

Uh-oh,” Moni sang, and nodded her head in Chantal’s direction. “I think someone’s a wee bit upset with us.” She turned and walked a few steps backward.”Careful,” I said. “We’re not out of range.””Have no...

“Mom, Arnie Welsh keeps calling me a geek. He says it like it’s a bad thing. Is being a geek a bad thing?””Of course not, Soda Pop. And don’t listen to labels. They don’t matter.””What...

So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE!””That is the single most amazing thing I’ve ever heard.

Ree”) kept the café in fabulous baked goods, talked authoritatively about subjects from Aliens to Zork, and drew the attentions of countless lovelorn geeks.

Genius or jock, it didn’t seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she’s using it to individually seal each item that she throws out.””Then they’d think she was a geek,” I said.”She will thank me later,”...

Right now. Living. Aiming to misbehave or just trying not to fade away.

There’s still much to do; still so much to learn. Mr. La Forge – engage!

On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo’s computer as a shitload.

I don’t think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish “geek” enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.

But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.

As a little girl I always expected that one day adventure would happen to me—someday a tornado would whisk me away to Oz, or I’d fall down a rabbit hole, or David Bowie would kidnap...

The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which...

Infighting would be stupid, since, y’know, claws and teeth.

Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

If I could describe myself, I’d say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When...

I span the entire geek spectrum.

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.

Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.

The saddest thing I have ever experienced is watching a fellow nerd I’ve known forever and befriended, trying to unnerdify themselves. It was painful because that great geeky personality I loved so much is hidden...

And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Then don’t settle,” he said.

I’m a bit of a tech geek myself.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that’s really kind of a contradiction.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

I’m a little bit of a geek – I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser… I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

Just like the notion of “Internet natives”, who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as “video game natives.

I am a huge theatre geek.

Who knew that you would be The One,” I smile, “which I guess makes me your Trinity.””My Amidala.””Your Zira.””My Sylvia.””Your…” I scour my brain, trying to remember some other great sci-fi love interest.”Ha! I’m your...

She sighed. Loudly. “Physical appearance is not what is important.”Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn’t bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she’s only running into the...

Dear Lynda Carter, Please be with me in my hour of need. Especially if I don’t have to twirl around to get my powers.

I love doing research. I’m a film-school geek.

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have spent so much time calculating the value of Pi. He would...

Vampires used to be the Dracula types, but in the last ten years most of them have become weak, brooding androgynes that only go after teenagers. A friend of mine took the opportunity to rid...

I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.