Geek Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

  Diane Neal

  Degrees, Older Sister, Theater

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• I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

  Matthew Settle

  Book, Comic, Closets

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• A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Book, Fans, Culture

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• I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

  Kurt Fuller

  Actors, Fraternity, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

  Samantha Shannon

  Creating, World, Fantasy

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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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• Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

  Joe De Sena

  Books And Movies, Biting, Chewing

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• Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

  Crystal Waters

  Giving, Guy, Understanding

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• Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

  Adam Baldwin

  Nerd, Acting, Band

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

  Miles Teller

  Iphone, Netflix, Watches

  "Questions and Answers with Miles Teller" by Joanna Varikos, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

  Zoey Deutch

  Hip Hop, Hips, Kind

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• I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

  Tom Felton

  Trying, Gadgets, Want

  "Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...

  Simon Pegg

  Stars, War, School

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

  Warren Spector

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

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• When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Skills, Way, Shows

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• I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every single technology event I’ve ever attended in Atlanta for the last 10 years. He knows what’s going on. He’s a technology geek at heart... And he’s on twitter, tweeting about local startups, global technology news, and of course, his own clients. I follow him on twitter.

  Ben Chestnut

  Heart, Thinking, Technology

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• I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

  Ellen Page

  Lost, Learning More, Planets

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• I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

  Amber Benson

  Jacob, Mythology, Knows

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• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Technology, Thinking

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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