“ Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store… Rebecca McNutt
“ If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When I meet a man who can quote… Melanie Kay Taylor
“ The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ 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
“ 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
“ I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs. Rebecca McNutt
“ The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable. Love The Stacks Bookstore
“ The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ His in-house intercom greeted him with a cheery 'Welcome home, Bart,' and his server droid - custom-made to replicate Princess Leia, classic 'Star Wars,' slave-girl mode (he was a nerd, but he was sti… J.D. Robb
“ I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all th… Sarah Vowell
“ I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's… Craig Taylor
“ I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patentl… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The saddest thing I have ever experienced is watching a fellow nerd I've known forever and befriended, trying to unnerdify themselves. It was painful because that great geeky personality I loved so mu… Melanie Kay Taylor
“ Obviously one of us went to Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and one of us didn't.Obviously one of is a total nerd. Bryan Lee O'Malley
