…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff. ’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.
All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
I know I have a face like a model. But I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.
I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.
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.
You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.
I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.
I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick. "
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.
If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears. ' That's a nerd.
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
What brought me to L. A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.
I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.
There is something sexy about a computer nerd.
My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.