#nerds

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#grew #i #i always #loved #loves

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#cool #given #just #nerds #politics

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#call #culture #gotten #hip #i

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#deep #fans #just #needy #nerds

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

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

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people. ↗

— John Green

#nerds #humor

You don't understand!' Foaly objected. Trouble cut him off with a chop of his hand through the air. 'I never understand. That's why we pay you and your dork posse." Foaly objected again. 'They are not dorks!' Trouble found space for yet another holster. 'Really? That guy brings a Beanie Baby to work every day. And your nephew, Mayne, speaks fluent Unicorn.' 'They're not all dorks,' said Foaly, correcting himself. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#nerds #humor