Nerd Quotes

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

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

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Don't underestimate us nerds!

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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

Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?

I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

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

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

I'm definitely not a nerd.

I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.

I grew up a nerd and now I'm a geek? I don't know.

Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

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

The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.

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.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

I'm a nerd. I'm a little guy... the last guy you'd expect in a romantic movie.

I'm just a big old nerd.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.