Chris Hardwick Quotes About Nerds

Quotes about: Nerds

• Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

  Chris Hardwick

  Understanding, Nerd, Details

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

• Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Grandfather, Generations

  "Self-help for nerds: advice from comedian Chris Hardwick". www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

• As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.

  Chris Hardwick

  Pie, Nerd, Different

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hipster, Differences, Nerd

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

• The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hate, Hipster, Nerd

• As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

  Chris Hardwick

  Talking, People, Nerd

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Brain, Tools

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

• Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Culture, Bigs

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

  Chris Hardwick

  People, Creative, Nerd

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

  Chris Hardwick

  Creative, Nerd, Consumers

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Treasure, Grew Up

  Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

• I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

  Chris Hardwick

  Smart, People, Nerd

• If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

  Chris Hardwick

  Play, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

  Chris Hardwick

  Government, Zuckerberg, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fun, People, Nerd

• I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.

  Chris Hardwick

  Revenge, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.

  Chris Hardwick

  Technology, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Nerd, Movement

• We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

  Chris Hardwick

  Digital Revolution, Nerd, Faces

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 29, 2012.

• I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mom, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Effort, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

  Chris Hardwick

  Kids, Nerd, Adults

• Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.

  Chris Hardwick

  Interesting, Nerd, Needs

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

• 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.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Latin, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

  Chris Hardwick

  School, Technology, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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