nerd

He's given me enough homework to last ten years. I'm gonna die of nerdism.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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 some Hitchcock out of thin air, do a perfect ''Timey Whimey'' impression, play me some classic rock when I'm sad and can give a 'Gone with the Wind' kiss, I will have my soul mate.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I__e ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I__e spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

To live in this world "Real World", you should be FUCKING nerd.

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you__e a nerd is like saying, __ey, I notice that you__ rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you__ 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?

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.

Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare__ Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. __ou ever read Hamlet?_ he questioned.__ tried to when I was in high school,_ said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. __ mean, it__ expected that everyone should like Shakespeare__ books and plays, but I just_._ her words faltered when she noticed him laughing to himself. __hat__ so funny, Sir?_ she added, slightly offended.__Oh, I__ not laughing at you, just with you,_ said the store owner. __ost people who say they love Shakespeare only pretend to love his work. You__e honest Ma__m, that__ all. You see, the reason you and so many others are put-off by reading Shakespeare is because reading his words on paper, and seeing his words in action, in a play as they were meant to be seen, are two separate things_ and if you can find a way to relate his plays to yourself, you__l enjoy them so much more because you__l feel connected to them. Take Hamlet for example _ Hamlet himself is grieving over a loss in his life, and everyone is telling him to move on but no matter how hard he tries to, in the end all he can do is to get even with the ones who betrayed him.___Wow, when you put it that way_ sure, I think I__l buy a copy just to try reading, why not?_ Mandy replied with a smile.

No one messes around with a nerd__ computer and escapes unscathed.

I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what other people are going through, and then there's this other group of people in the world who hate that. 'Suck it up, man, we're not coddling you, take care of yourself, what's your problem?' It's jocks versus geeks, and I've always referred to life as perpetual high school because it never stops.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

I wasn__ a nerd, mind you, but I__ spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I__ had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

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

... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn__ seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be merely hard drives.__hat on earth is that?_ __hat__ my Kung Fu,_ he said proudly, patting the top of the futuristic-looking stack.__s that what you wanted to show me?___o, but it__ impressive, isn__ it?___f you say so.__teves sighed and shook his head, so few people could appreciate the intellectual complexity of an almost untraceable hacking device.

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven__here every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with__e woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

I hadn__ been a nerd, mind you. I__ just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.