“Of course I wanted to be popular.|But in fact I didn’t, not enough. There was something else I wanted more: to be smart. Not simply to do well in school, though that counted for something, but to design marvellous rockets, or to write well, or to understand how to program computers. In general, to make great things…” Paul Graham —Why Nerds are UnpopularPaulGraham.com)

A lot of bloggers must be nerds, because the above story is currently #2 on Blogdex.