nerd 宅男

今次，就用圖片來決定吧！！

nerd，原本是用來指書呆子。近幾年開始用在宅男身上。早期的書呆子 nerd 有貶低的意思，但是如今的 nerd 宅男指的卻是上知天文下知地理的科技男，如今，許多熱愛 3C 資訊的男士們，紛紛自稱為 nerd，並視其為一種驕傲。(類似的字還有 geek )

以下是自由軟體的元老之一 Gerald Sussman 對於 nerd 一詞的想法：

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, which can unfortunately cause the downward spiral into social rejection. —Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, The New York Times, 29 August 1993

我的想法是讓孩子們知道有智慧是好事，不要去理會反智主義的朋輩壓力。我希望每個孩子都成為Nerd——也就是指用學習去競爭社會優勢的人，雖然有時也可能不幸會被排斥。