Geek Quotes - Page 7

• No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

  Linus Torvalds

  Normal

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• Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Just Being, Computer

  "Mr Linux basks in the limelight". BBC World ClickOnline Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. October 5, 2002.

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• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Attention, Pay

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• I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

  Joss Whedon

  Who I Am, Fiction, Birth

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• To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

  Mary Roach

  People, Kingdoms, Strange

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

  William Mapother

  Reading, Brain, Neuroscience

  "Going on From Lost , Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

  Interview with Lou Anders, www.believermag.com. April 2005.

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• Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

  China Mieville

  Running, Military, People

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Love You, Reading

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• Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Paris

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• I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.

  Paul Feig

  Want, Freak

  "Paul Feig Looks Back on Freaks and Geeks - and Ahead to Its Possible Future". Interview with Jen Vhaney, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2015.

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• I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.

  Kevin Hearne

  Tree, Fans, World

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.294, Del Rey

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• Travis: I didn’t know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek.

  Rick Riordan

  Makeup, Clothes, Two

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• Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

  Graham Chapman

  Lying, Government, Holy Grail

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect

  Linda Howard

  Team, Perfect, Office

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• I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

  Rachel Caine

  People, Groups, Might

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Cape Storm”, p.168, Allison & Busby

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• The road goes ever on and on

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Books And Movies, Errands, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Thinking, Black

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.269, Penguin

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• To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Past

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• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Offending, People, Nerd

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

  Nathan Fillion

  Mother, Thinking, Looks

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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• The geeks shall inherit the earth.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Earth

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• I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

  Ed Robertson

  Band, Machines, Canada

  Source: www.people.com

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