“It turns out that writing Tetris on your calculator doesn’t actually win you the cheerleaders.”— Nick Ganju, tim.blog
“[Being a ‘geek’] has become a badge of honor. It’s geeks who really make or break a TV show or movie or video game. They’re the ones who are passionate about these things and who collect [the paraphernalia] and talk about them. A geek is really somebody interested in communication and entertainment…”— Stan Lee, washingtonpost.com
“Oh, man, the geeks have inherited the earth.”— Rebecca Kirshner, Judd Apatow, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Jock, imdb.com
“I think my biggest ‘huh’ moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical ‘geek’ is just as hypermasculine as your typical ‘jock’ when you look at it from the right angle. As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in…”— David J Prokopetz, prokopetz.tumblr.com
“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for c…”— Weili Dai, edition.cnn.com