Nerd pride

Nerd pride

(body)The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pridemovement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussmanand Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseballhats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors.

"My idea is to present an image to children that it is good tobe intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures tobe anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd- where that means someone who prefers studying and learningto competing for social dominance".

-- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times",1994-08-29.