Top 100 Quotes About Nerds

#1. 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

#2. The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

#3. Lo didn't have a splendid time either. He drank something Captain America gave him. Turns out the Cap imposter wasn't too noble, having spiked his booze with roofies. Nerds can be vicious too.

Krista Ritchie

#4. Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

Paul Graham

#5. It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

#6. The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

Chris Hardwick

#7. I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

John C. Reilly

#8. It's Nerd World," Peabody said. "Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks." "It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.

J.D. Robb

#9. Wow," said Henry. "Awesome. And I'll help you with you know who."
"Who?" Justin said again
"Talking about Dr. Who, J. You know how we nerds love our Who."
"Who? How did you two get on Who? We were talking about the play.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#10. The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

Brian Malloy

#11. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

Magenta Periwinkle

#12. 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

#13. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

Nora Roberts

#14. If only he can get over becoming a NERD.

Michael Buckley

#15. 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

#16. Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

Temple Grandin

#17. Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Richard Bayan

#18. Ladies, let this be a lesson. People always say you need to be nice to nerds, because you might end up working for them some day. The same goes for nerdy guys who ask you out. You should be nice to them, because one day they might be smoking hot.

Rachel Van Dyken

#19. I'm the queen of the nerds.

Tori Amos

#20. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.

Heather O'Neill

#21. 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

#22. Don't underestimate us nerds!

Katsura Hoshino

#23. The nerds are rich and successful, and those jocks are dumb divorced guys with beer bellies. By the way, in high school, I also played football and, yes, I have a beer belly. Jeannie can't divorce me. We are Catholic. Thank you, Jesus.

Jim Gaffigan

#24. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

John Green

#25. We'll show them that we're not just geeky freaks and obsessive nerds without any social skills.

Kevin Berry

#26. 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

#27. I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

Kyle Kinane

#28. 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

#29. Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

Bill Gates

#30. Joanna gave me a leveling look. You think we're the only major that's superinsular and clique-ish and gossips about everyone else in it? Believe me, if Nathan bought a new brand of toothpaste, those math nerds probably already know about it.

Alicia Thompson

#31. 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

#32. Nerds are like slinkys. Not good for much, but they put a smile on your face when you push them down the stairs...

Casey Cooper

#33. We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#34. You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?

Triple H

#35. 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

#36. It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Paul Graham

#37. Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

Claudia Christian

#38. All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

A.D. Posey

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Peter's not cocky. Peter's a nerd, ' Drew says.
'I know! Where does he get off being nerdy and full of himself? It's like he lives in some kind of alterna-world where nerds are cool.'
'He does,' Drew says smiling wide. 'It's called arts school.

Rachel M. Wilson

#43. 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

#44. Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

Eric Wilson

#45. Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.

Alyson Hannigan

#46. If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

#47. I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.

Jude Law

#48. Yes. I know. No one gets excited for class.
Except nerds.
I'd come to accept that title. I owned it.

Cambria Hebert

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

Roseanne Barr

#52. I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

Alessandra Torresani

#53. 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

#54. It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

Carl Sagan

#55. Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

Judd Apatow

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

Alexandra Adornetto

#60. The call-and-response rituals of geeks were a thing of beauty, and allowed said geeks to identify each other across time and space.

Atom Yang

#61. In fact, the world needs more nerds.

Ben Bernanke

#62. I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds,
I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.

Sean Price

#63. The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Jon Evans

#64. I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Chris Hardwick

#65. Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

Scott Ian

#66. The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#67. I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

Nouriel Roubini

#68. 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

#69. An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

Kathy Reichs

#70. Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.

Caroline B. Cooney

#71. These strange-looking people weren't peculiars. They were nerds. We were very much in the present.

Ransom Riggs

#72. Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

Zadie Smith

#73. All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.

Bobby Bragan

#74. Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Jordan Peele

#75. Only the nerds will save the earth.

John Hodgman

#76. I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

Megan Amram

#77. In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Alan Kay

#78. My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding ... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me.

Tom Lenk

#79. 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

#80. NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life,
unfortunately, it won't date them either.

Stephen Colbert

#81. All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Beth Ditto

#82. Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he's a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.

Julia Kent

#83. 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

#84. This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.

Roald Dahl

#85. Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

Anthony Bourdain

#86. Alan shrugged. "I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president - " "Co-president," Sputnik corrected. " - is kind of like being declared King of Nerds." "Co-king," Sputnik asserted.

J.M. Richards

#87. Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

Douglas Adams

#88. I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

Kristen Bell

#89. I am a nerd among nerds.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#90. Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?

Sam Maggs

#91. But I have to warn you that this is the word - 'politics' - that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

Neal Stephenson

#92. The nerds are running the world now.

Joe Piscopo

#93. Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

Kaley Cuoco

#94. Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.

Jesse Plemons

#95. Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was fine, because I'm not even thrilled about regular foods, so, you know, what do I need with like advanced digital HD wi-fi foods and whatnot? -Abby

Christopher Moore

#96. 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

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#98. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Charles J. Sykes

#99. Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing ...

Douglas Coupland

#100. Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

Mirella Muffarotto

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