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Quotes About Nerds

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.
~ Jim Lee
A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
~ Patton Oswalt
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
~ Adam McKay
The missile has a solid-fuel rocket engine with a ten-kilometre range and more brainpower than a roomful of nerds.
~ Robert Muchamore
If politics were a high school movie, Republicans would be the jocks and mean girls locking hapless freshmen inside their lockers and threatening to call in their rich parents if the teachers complain - plus the broke kids who are always willing to strong-arm homework for them from the nerds.
~ Joy Reid
For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
~ William Jackson Harper
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
~ Kaley Cuoco
Joe Trapanese did our score, and when he was first brought on to the project, he and I met up at a coffee shop. I remember just being like, 'I have many files for you.' So we sat there and just exchanged our favorite tracks like the nerds that we are. I subjected him to me singing a Ravkan folk song that is actually in Rule of Wolves.'
~ Leigh Bardugo
I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.
~ Michio Kaku
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
It's been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.
~ John Hodgman
Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.
~ Liam Cunningham
To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.
~ Amy Van Dyken
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.
~ Chris Hardwick
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
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
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
~ Chris Hardwick
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
~ Jonathan Krohn
I go to comic shops because I like to just listen to nerds arguing about nerd stuff to relax.
~ Pendleton Ward
Two computer nerds in a pod.
~ Gordon Korman
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
If it weren't for Tolkien, all of us nerds would've had a lot less fun during the last ninety years.
~ Ernest Cline