When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.

I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.