Y> 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)
