“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.” PeopleThinkingPersonsUseOrderComputerTelephonesNerd Author:Douglas Adams
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.” PeopleOrderChangedComputerMachinesIntelligentCrowdsArtificial IntelligenceNerdFragmentsDeitiesAttribution Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.” SchoolGamesStuffHoursGrowing UpGrowingImagineComputerClubsChessLoudLatinCampsNerdOutcastArcades Author:Chris Hardwick
“No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.” ComputerRevengeMessNerd Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“There is something sexy about a computer nerd.” InternetComputerSexyFree SpeechNerd Author:Sandra Bullock
“I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.” SchoolComputerHigh SchoolCrewNerdComputer Science Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?” WorldGuyComputerBillsClassicGatesBetter PlaceNerd Author:Alex Gibney
“If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.” IfsKidsFeltAmountComputerIsolationNerdGeek Author:Junot Diaz
“When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.” IfsTodayWantedSchoolCultureTechnologyComputerObsessedNerdGadgets Author:Chris Hardwick
“I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.” KindComputerProgramNerdChristmas Present Author:Alexandra Richards
“Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.” LibertyIndustryBattleShapesComputerPaidPursuitDietsDramaticSoftwareStakesNerdPursuit Of HappinessCokeKeyboardsDiet CokeStock OptionsDramatic LifeComputer Keyboards Author:Nathan Myhrvold