It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how...

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.

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...

Wow,” said Henry. “Awesome. And I’ll help you with you know who.””Who?” Justin said again”Talking about Dr. Who, J. You know how we nerds love our Who.””Who? How did you two get on Who? We...

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he...

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...

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

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

You love tests?””Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What’s not to love?

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

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

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.

Excel suffers from an image problem. Most people assume that spreadsheet programs such as Excel are intended for accountants, analysts, financiers, scientists, mathematicians, and other geeky types. Creating a spreadsheet, sorting data, using functions, and...

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

I’m going to put the moves on her,’ he says gravely. ‘Things might get weird.’ He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous,...

Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone’s so poor these days, the ’90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone’s too poor to put up new buildings. He said...

Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he’s a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.

Never apologize for being nerdy, because unnerdy people never apologize for being assholes.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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...