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Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face. -- Tom Wolfe
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life. -- Alyson Hannigan
When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. -- Tina Fey
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it. -- Chris Hardwick
The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)" -- Charles Stross
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. -- Jonathan Lethem
I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere. -- James Cromwell
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature. -- Chris Hardwick
I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing. -- Joanna Garcia
There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power. -- Chris Hardwick
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. -- Greg Bear
I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype. -- Chris Hardwick
When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele. -- Dennis Miller
It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance. -- Christopher Moore
In fact, the world needs more nerds. -- Ben Bernanke
I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds. -- Nouriel Roubini
Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day. -- Judd Apatow
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys. -- Kaley Cuoco
I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned. -- Kristen Bell
I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult. -- Chris Hardwick
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life. -- Daniel Radcliffe
All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds. -- Beth Ditto
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. -- Zadie Smith
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. -- Al Yankovic
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. -- Scott Ian
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
My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night. -- Tatiana Maslany
Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people. -- Amy Lee
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways. -- Adam McKay
Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds. -- Chris Hardwick
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. -- Nathan Myhrvold
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women. -- Michio Kaku
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. -- Iain Banks
A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves. -- Patton Oswalt
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. -- Paul Feig
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper. -- Junot Diaz
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart. -- Chris Hardwick
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet. -- John Hughes
Don't underestimate us nerds! -- Katsura Hoshino
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. -- Richard Bayan
I'm the queen of the nerds. -- Tori Amos
Only the nerds will save the earth. -- John Hodgman
The nerds are running the world now. -- Joe Piscopo
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps -- Kathy Reichs
If you build it, nerds will come. -- Jon Lovitz
The nerds have taken over the newsrooms. -- Phillip Knightley
Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. -- Claudia Christian
Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day. -- Bill Gates
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. -- Bill Gates
I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds. -- Alessandra Torresani
My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators. -- David Spade
Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one -- Bill Gates
I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars. -- Ben Mezrich
What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy. -- Peter Thiel
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'. -- John Green
Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers. -- Chris Hardwick
The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'? -- Triple H
Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want -- Tucker Max
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. -- Roseanne Barr
The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. -- Paul G
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds. -- Jonathan Krohn
I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed. -- Sean Price
All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer. -- Bobby Bragan
I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned -- Kristen Bell
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. -- Kirk Hammett
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests. -- Kyle Kinane
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. -- Aldrich Ames
You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End. -- Jeff Kinney
Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel. -- Jordan Peele
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things. -- Chris Hardwick
Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed. -- Kevin Hearne
Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far. -- Devendra Banhart
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I'm just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions. -- P. C. Cast
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit. -- Alex Pareene
Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds. -- Adam Baldwin
People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones. -- Leelee Sobieski
Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women. -- Stephen Colbert
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. -- Phil Robertson
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. -- Jim Lee
That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it. -- John Burnside
To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there. -- Amy Van Dyken
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds. -- Douglas Adams
Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars -- Darren Hayes
The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad. -- Evan Goldberg
Drunk nerds. Not my thing." "You like nerds." "Not nerds who join fraternities," Cath said. "That's a whole subclass of nerds that I'm not interested in. -- Rainbow Rowell
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways. -- Erin Gray
It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica. -- John Hodgman
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it. -- Rands
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience. -- John Green
Everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on.Even the nerds on "Big Bang Theory" are getting better looking. Their clothes are getting nicer. They're better groomed. It works for them. -- Nick Kroll
What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like. -- Brian Posehn
I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that. -- Chris Hardwick
No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh. -- Reggie Watts
I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money. -- Kevin Sessums
Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds. -- Phil Robertson

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