“Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart. And popularity is not something you can do in your spare time, not in the fiercely competitive environment of an American secondary school.”

— Paul Graham

"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003

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English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

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