In a 2007 interview on `` The Colbert Report '' , Richard Clarke said the difference between nerds and geeks is `` geeks get it done '' or `` ggid '' Julie Smith defined a geek as `` a bright young man turned inward , poorly socialized , who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors , who thought of that secret , dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace -- somewhere exciting , a place more real than his own life , a land he could conquer , not a drab teenager 's room in his parents ' house '' .
In a 2007 interview on `` The Colbert Report '' , Richard Clarke said the difference between nerds and geeks is `` geeks get it done . '' Julie Smith described a geek as `` a bright young man turned inward , poorly socialized , who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors , who thought of that secret , dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace -- somewhere exciting , a place more real than his own life , a land he could conquer , not a drab teenager 's room in his parents ' house . ''