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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)