Brian Acton Quotes

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

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

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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.

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

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

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

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I was never going to be a scholar.