Whatever the geeks are doing in their garage on weekends is what the entire earth will be doing 20 years later as a mainstream thing.

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

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...

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?”I’ve already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?”Elvish.

In defense of geeks,” Justine said, “they’re great in bed. They fantasize a lot, so they’re really creative. And they love to play with gadgets.

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

One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue....

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

I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. ‘These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it’s Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get...

We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in...

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not...

I remember being unbelievable bummed when ‘Freaks and Geeks’ was canceled.

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

But why didn’t you just ask me?” I set down my fork and glare at her. “Because you were sleeping,” She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay.”I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn’t intended...

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

Pop culture. Nobody does bullshit better than us. Right? China took over manufacturing. And the Middle East has us on fossil fuels. That’s just geography and politics. We’re a nation of whacko immigrants. Scavengers and...

I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I’m not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

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.

We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into books and computers, who stayed up all night scanning obscure forums, looking for transcendence, dreaming of...

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,”...

No gaming outside of the venue without a sanctioned game master.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.