Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

I was a normal American nerd.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

I used to be on some nerd-type stuff.

I actually am a computer nerd.

It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

America is full of geeks - and that's a really good thing.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

I love working for a company full of geeks.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.

I'm a hard-core geek.

I'm a geek. A techie geek.

I consider myself a nerd. I love science and technology.

I am a geek. I am always in books.