"part of being a geek in my mind is actually loving something so much, being unabashedly in love with it, in a way that it opens yourself up to ridicule. and there are people that are extremely obvious human beings, and those are the people that bully. they can't allow themselves to be vulnerable. they can't allow themselves to love something and have anybody possibly put them down for it. and it comes from a place of fear, obviously, bullying, but being a geek is, in a sense, being...either envied or feared or just loathed because you've found something you relate to."
-charles ross on being a geek-