Nerds Quotes

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

~ Matt Smith

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

~ Charles J. Sykes

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 to have a good time, or don't they?

~ Carl Sagan

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

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

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 you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

~ John Green

The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.

~ Colleen Chen

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 a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

~ Neal Stephenson

If you haven't guessed yet, my family is made up of ultra-nerds. This is not necessarily a bad thing. We play games like Scrabble and watch documentaries together. I have always known that I am going to college. Yet, there are times when it can get a little embarrassing. As Mom admits, Re-enacting is the final step before Star Trek conventions. In a couple of years, my family will probably be doing that, too.

~ Maya Van Wagenen

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.

~ Michelle Hodkin

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

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

~ Magenta Periwinkle

He's given me enough homework to last ten years. I'm gonna die of nerdism.

~ Mark A. Cooper

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.

~ Julia Kent

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

~ A.d. Posey

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

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that being a Goth or something means you're part of a big social scene, it's an inclusive thing. Back then, we all just went our different ways in the afterglow,wishing each other all the best with the next ten years of bullying.

~ Frankie Boyle

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, but don't worry. I've done it before.

~ Robin Sloan

Every rule, every chart, every geeky statistic in a game book or module feeds into this impulse. All those details allow us to take apart existence, look at the individual parts, figure out how they work, and put them back together. Some people relieve stress by getting drunk or high and losing control; nerds find comfort by taking control and applying structure. Logic is like a warm blanket.

~ David M. Ewalt

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

~ Nora Roberts

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 he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants.

~ Junot Díaz

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

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.

~ Simon Garfield

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

~ Björk

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 reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances.

~ Neal Stephenson

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

~ Kristen Bell