Josh Gondelman Quotes

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

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

I'm a terrible dancer.

I'm a dork!

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

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 don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.