Quotes About Nerdiness

#1. I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

Dan Hill

#2. I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.

Alec Berg

#3. This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

Isaac Newton

#4. The wine must have done its job, because I am relaxed and finally at ease. Yes, it's definitely the wine. Otherwise I wouldn't have started singing out of the blue in a million years.

Hilaria Alexander

#5. What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the rough days of his youth, but it also made him stick out in the mean streets of Paterson even more than he already did.

Junot Diaz

#6. Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Junot Diaz

#7. I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

James Mercer

#8. Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

James McAvoy

#10. I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Death is my world. Everything else, school and friends, they're just things that get in the way of my next ghost.

Kendare Blake

#13. Nerd girls are the world's most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

John Green

#14. 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

#15. Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never seemed to understand you. But as you grow up you find others like yourself, people who support you, embrace your weirdness, and love for who you are - and they become your new family." - Tara

Elizabeth Briggs

#16. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

Kristen Bell

#18. Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn't have passed for Normal if he'd wanted to.

Junot Diaz

#19. 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

#20. Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac - Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.

Shirin Dubbin

#21. We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

John Bonham

#22. Business is warfare; don't get into it if you are afraid to draw blood.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

Joel Stein

#24. And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be a nerd among other nerds - without being reminded that you're the nerd.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.

Joss Whedon

#27. My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. 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

#29. Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#30. I loved Monty Python for the wordplay
this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

George Saunders