#nerd

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome. ↗

— John Green

#humor #internet #nerdfighters #humor

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#nerd #nerdiness #nerds #sense-of-humor #wisdom

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#horror #nerd-humor #oppel #this-dark-endeavor #humor

Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission...were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#business

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#religion #science #design

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 Lindsay Lohan. ↗

— John Green

#intelligent #nerd #thoughtful #intelligence

I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #modernity #nerd #nerdiness #nerds

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

— Mandy Hale

#being-different #being-yourself #conformity #different #fitting-in

I'm a big stupid history nerd. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#history #i #nerd #stupid

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?' ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#actor #angle #anything #else #fun