“When our leaders take these anti-science positions, or when they happily plead ignorance about some of the most important issues of our time—our energy use, global warming, genomics, all the revolutions unleashed by computer science—they’re not just being anti-intellectual. They’re also being un-American. The people who founded this country were serious science geeks. We should be celebrating this fact, not running away from it.”
Steven Johnson
more infosource: “A Live Discussion on Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America,” Huffington Post, March 19, 2009.
category: environment, nerd, politics, science
medium: Blog post
“If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
Bill Gates
more infosource: “Bill Gates: ‘If you don’t like geeks, you’re in trouble,'” by Mary Riddell, Telegraph, October 20, 2010.
category: culture, geek, innovation, nerd, technology
medium: newspaper interview
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