{"quotes":[{"text":"Pop culture. Nobody does bullshit better than us. Right? China took over manufacturing. And the Middle East has us on fossil fuels. That's just geography and politics. We're a nation of whacko immigrants. Scavengers and con men. We crossed the ocean on faith, stole some land and stone-cold made up a whole country out of nothing but balls and bullshit. Superhero comics got invented by crazy genius Jews who showed up and revamped the refugee experience into a Man of Steel sent from Krypton with a secret identity.","author":"Damon Suede","tags":["american-culture","comics","cosplay","funny","geeks","superheros","sweet"],"id":20350,"author_id":"Damon+Suede"},{"text":"This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["geeks","humour"],"id":61105,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants.","author":"Junot Díaz","tags":["geek","geeks","nerd","nerdiness","nerds","school","schooling","schools"],"id":86617,"author_id":"Junot+D%C3%ADaz"},{"text":"The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.","author":"Sorin Suciu","tags":["coding","comedy","geek","geek-humor","geeks","humor"],"id":93440,"author_id":"Sorin+Suciu"},{"text":"I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo.","author":"Liz Czukas","tags":["cool","geeks","young-adult"],"id":113151,"author_id":"Liz+Czukas"},{"text":"I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. 'These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it's Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get to play with all of our toys!","author":"Anne Eliot","tags":["apple","christmas","computers","geeks","humor","macintosh","macs","santa"],"id":144248,"author_id":"Anne+Eliot"},{"text":"No gaming outside of the venue without a sanctioned game master.","author":"Leah Rae Miller","tags":["culture","geekery","geeks","role-playing-game","rpg"],"id":145322,"author_id":"Leah+Rae+Miller"},{"text":"To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["geeks","girls","women"],"id":169622,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.","author":"Maureen F. McHugh","tags":["dating","geeks","programmers","programming","women"],"id":193676,"author_id":"Maureen+F.+McHugh"},{"text":"We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["athletes","athleticism","brainiac","brains","bravery","breed","caveman","complexity","future","gatherer","geeks","genius","hospital","humanity","hunter","hunter-gatherer","intelligence","intensive-care","mastery","nerds","patients","society","technology"],"id":197100,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}