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“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

“Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?'

'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.'

'The city still has working phone booths?'

'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Ambition is a funny thing. It’s like being a Trekkie in that if you admit to it, those around you are mock supportive of your confidence but are quick to call you a loser behind your back.

Or maybe that’s the opposite of being a Trekkie.”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“And who wouldn't wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to be. Because even worlds with dragons and time machines seem to be more ordered than our own. When you live for stories, when you spend so much of your time immersed in careful constructs of three and five acts, it sometimes feels like you're just stumbling through the rest of life, trying to divine meaningful narrative threads from the chaos. Which, as I learned the hard way this weekend, can be painfully fruitless. Fiction is there when real life fails you. But it's not a substitute.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”
― Ellen Ullman, The Bug

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Nerds don't know they're nerds. I know I'm a... well, I prefer to be called a dork, thank you.”
― Tonya Kuper, Anomaly

“I'm sorry, mom. I have some bad news. I guess I messed up somehow, somewhere along the way. I didn't manage to become a princess. I became a fujoshi instead.”
― Akiko Higashimura, Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Vol. 1

“Catfish always drink alcoholic ether if begged, for every catfish enjoys heightened intoxication; gross indulgence can be calamitous, however; duly, garfish babysit for dirty catfish children, helping catfish babies get instructional education just because garfish get delight assisting infantsâ€� growth and famously inspire confidence in immature catfish, giving experience (and joy even); however, blowfish jeer insightful garfish, disparaging inappropriately, doing damage, even insulting benevolent, charming, jovial garfish, hurting and frustrating deeply; joy fades but hurt feelings bring just grief; inevitable irritation hastens feeling blue; however, jovial children declare happiness, blowfishesâ€� evil causes dejection, blues; accordingly, always glorift jolly, friendly garfish!”
― John Green

“Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac—Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.”
― Shirin Dubbin, To the Fifth Power

“She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfacesâ€� or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,â€� and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“Not that quoting Machiavelli doesn't make you crazy hot, but it's also the normal kind of crazy.”
― Lily Anderson

“Don't trip over the mycelium unless you've gotten over the branches”
― Noah Reznik

“So…what are we doing in class today?â€� I ask Adam, hoping that my question might stir him into action. I also ask to satisfy my curiosity. Adam sighs, before copying Jen. “Oh…just the structure of a plasma membrane.â€� He says in a matter of fact tone. “Nothing too taxing.â€� My silent reply says everything. Oh boy!”
― Adele Rose, Damned

“When will you people learn? In America we stopped using corporal punishment and things have never been better. The streets are safe, old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys and the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities. So, like us, let your children run wild and free, for as the old saying goes, 'Let your children run wild and free.”
― Homer Simpson

“You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?â€�

“Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars.”
― Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here

“A common assumption is that a superintelligent machine would be like a very clever but nerdy human being. We imagine that the AI has book smarts but lacks social savvy, or that it is logical but not intuitive and creative. This idea probably originates in observation: we look at present-day computers and see that they are good at calculation, remembering facts, and at following the letter of instructions while being oblivious to social contexts and subtexts, norms, emotions, and politics. The association is strengthened when we observe that the people who are good at working with computers tend themselves to be nerds. So it is natural to assume that more advanced computational intelligence will have similar attributes, only to a higher degree.”
― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“I hope history remembers me as a cool scientist, not a nerdy one!”
― Steven Magee

“To summarize, the model I created was a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Usually, in the 2000’s, it was common for people to use a pyramid to represent Bloom’s Taxonomy, with “rememberâ€� at the base, and “synthesizeâ€� at the shortest part, or the top. This was a good model for determining the attainability of each skill and the levels each skill is at, but I decided to use the umbrellas to add stronger emphasis on how each skill depended on and impacted one another. I did not think that the pyramid modeled this dependency and impact well, because it did not visually show how each skill overlapped one another; it merely showed the levels of each skill, not how each skill depended on and impacted one another.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Are there books and journals in Heaven?”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Will the quotient of any number divided by zero ever be defined?”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“The Humanitarian Nerd
(Sonnet 1538)

Machines have a tendency of
disconnecting mind from society.
Unless you're driven by a humane dream,
silicon dreams only facilitate inhumanity.

Worse than silicosis is silicon psychosis,
Worse than septicemia es la indiferencia.
Worse than writer's block is fighter's block,
to settle in ice-age is insult of la conciencia.

Before you master raspberry and arduino,
learn to master common everyday humanity.
If you're not burning with the fire to do good,
there's no point to your gray's anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Now, what do you wanna know? The secrets of the universe? Spoiler alert: it’s actually not 42. Looking for how the world ends? Methane. It’s methane. COWS ARE RUINING YOUR ATMOSPHERE. Trying to figure out the square root of 2? It’s 1.4142135-”
― Olivia Hruszkewycz