#nerd

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

— Magenta Periwinkle

#coming-of-age #cutting #cutting-class #first-love #geeks

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face. ↗

— Steve Martin

#hilarious-nerd #art

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can. ↗

— Donalyn Miller

#teachers #communication

The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date is a circle. ↗

— John Green

#dating

Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes. ↗

— Ellen Ullman

#nerdy #design

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions. ↗

— Scott Meyers

#funny #nerdy #programming #design

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#nerd #experience

Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#nerd #humor

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 New Brunswick train bridge. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#heaven #nerd #suicide #virgin #funny