{"quotes":[{"text":"Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room.","author":"John Green","tags":["band","band-nerd","friends","high-school","nerd","social","young-adult"],"id":10841,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"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.","author":"Randall Munroe","tags":["gender","nerd","society"],"id":16713,"author_id":"Randall+Munroe"},{"text":"No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["computer","computer-hackers","computers","funny","geek","geek-humor","humor","humour","nerd","nerd-humor","nerds","revenge","vengeance"],"id":22303,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.","author":"Carrie Harris","tags":["fighting","football","funny","manual","nerd"],"id":41133,"author_id":"Carrie+Harris"},{"text":"Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.","author":"Junot Díaz","tags":["funny","heaven","nerd","suicide","virgin"],"id":41676,"author_id":"Junot+D%C3%ADaz"},{"text":"He caught a glimpse of himself in the rear-view mirror, but instead of the handsome, successful, owner of a billion-dollar corporation, he saw the remnants of the unpopular, socially-awkward, Magic The Gathering-obsessed nerd he left behind all those years ago. That gorgeous and psychotic minx on the fifteenth floor cracked his mirror, and he saw his true reflection.","author":"Emmie White","tags":["nerd","reflection","truth"],"id":59041,"author_id":"Emmie+White"},{"text":"Nerd? Nope... Another guess??... Smart? Nope.. I'm not clever even and smarter I don't said it and I even don't propose this... (which you said before few minutes?) to the judge... Let's take It like I have curiousity for the stuff around us!","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["curious","genius","morbidly","nerd","smart"],"id":68839,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"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":"To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["nerd","reality"],"id":96542,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"To live in this world 'Real World', you should be FUCKING nerd.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["be","fucking","nerd","real","should","world"],"id":111349,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}