Kelley has an interesting discussion about the differences between a geek, a nerd and a dork. As she states, most use these terms interactively without distinction, and most allow such to get a fairly good description of the person's personality. I see all as being fairly intelligent members of the human race, but each occupying a different part of my proposed triumvirate of abilities: creating, enumerating, or constructing.
One segment of the society creates things, ideas, products. They have a unique vision for finding the new. One segment counts, records, and archives anything and everything. One segment likes to get their hands dirty, take things apart, and put things together. I refer to these groups as Philosophers, Bean Counters, and Doers.
Now Geeks are a certain segment of Philosophers, who can't see the world for what it is but only for what it could be. Make the World a better Place.
Nerds, on the other hand, are a subset of Counters, who see the world for nothing more than a mass of what it is made of and use superior intelligence to get more of it. Bill Gates is a nerd.
Dorks are a select portion of those doers who possess superior knowledge of the world, but are always tripping up. Affable, friendly, and gullible.
Now, this was floating around the Internet and Frank* fished it up:
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Now, if you just read that and thought I bet there is an algorithm pattern to that quote, you are a Geek.
If you saw it and counted the number of correctly spelled words in the quote and expect to win a prize for having done so, you are a Nerd.
And if you saw that quote and searched Google to check whether it was an Internet hoax or not, you are a Dork.
And, if there was an a real BlogFather out there, it should be surely noticed that this post deserves an Instalanche. That is certainly prize winning material.
*You Nerds would have checked out that link.
Posted by notGeorge at September 12, 2003 10:05 PM | TrackBackI would have to agree with that!
Posted by: Tony S. at September 12, 2003 10:41 PM