Nerd pride

body The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride

movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman

and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball

hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors.

"My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to

be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to

be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd

- where that means someone who prefers studying and learning

to competing for social dominance".

-- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times",

1994-08-29.

(1994-11-11)