Geek Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• I like to say I'm geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up.

  Brad Goreski

  Doe, Littles, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Design, Hobbies, Development

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• I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

  William Landay

  Bits

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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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• John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Husband, Crazy, White

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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'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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• 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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• Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Running, Communication, Dirty

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

  Daniel Suarez

  Your Side, House, Sides

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• It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

  Lev Grossman

  Soul, Glimpse, Looks

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• I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

  Richard Coyle

  Kids, Sides, Groups

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• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

  Dave Barry

  Light, Three, Paper

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stars, Rocks, Nerd

  "‘Dr. Doom’ economist Nouriel Roubini forced to remove giant hot tub" by Emily Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

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