Quotes About Whiz kids

Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.

IN 1987, TIME published a cover story, titled "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids," that stands as one of the earliest pop-culture eruptions of a new Asian stereotype: the Asian American (specifically, the East/ South Asian American) as academic overachiever.