Chris Hardwick Quotes

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

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 geek. A techie geek.

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

I'm a huge nerd.

I am a geek. I am always in books.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

I'm a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people. But I was always a nerd in other terms - always a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, stuff like that.

I'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.

I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

If you build it, nerds will come.

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.