#nerd

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

— Randall Munroe

#nerd #society #gender

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#deep #fans #just #needy #nerds

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. ↗

— Logan Marshall-Green

#directed #father #going #kid #mother

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#care #geeky #ground #guys #hierarchy

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#else #everyone #friendly #good #guys

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#awkward #growing #growing up #i #little

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#did #guess #high #high school #i

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#nerd #off #pays #really #sometimes

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? ↗