I can see why you like it here, there’s a thin layer of nerd all over everything.

You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy to To save you from your old ways You play forgiveness Watch him now, here he comesHe doesnt look a thing like Jesus But...

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that...

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

I’m definitely not a nerd.

After all, I wasn’t crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn’t know when to stop.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock’s locker room bitch.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic–there’s a group of people in this world that don’t like conflict and care about what other people are...

On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band...

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he’d jumped off...

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

I just like to say I’m from London, I don’t have any specific area I represent. I’m not representing for a small group of people. I’d like everybody to be able to relate to a...

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...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

I’m not a nerd, I play one on TV.

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...

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Weirdly, D&D didn’t encourage my leanings towards trying magic of my own at all. In fact, it frustrated them. Even the most pompous and ambitious historical magicians, from the Zaroastrian Magi through John Dee, Francis...

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...

No, I’m not a nerd. The only thing I nerd out about is psychology magazines.

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.

I’m just a big old nerd.

So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

Call me nerd today, call me boss tomorrow.

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

I’m a big stupid history nerd.

In a well-ordered universe…camping would take place indoors.

I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn’t know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn’t have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the...

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...

I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it’s functional as well as fashionable.

Are you missing the library again?” Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. “You caught me,” she congratulated him. “I’m reading.””I bet the librarians back home are...

To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

He caught a glimpse of himself in the rear-view mirror, but instead of the handsome, successful, owner of a billion-dollar corporation, he saw the remnants of the unpopular, socially-awkward, Magic The Gathering-obsessed nerd he left...

I still feel like a nerd.