Geek Quotes - Page 10

• Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.

  Felicia Day

  Technology, Views, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Views, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moving, Technology, People

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• A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Water, Speech, Rebellion

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• I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

  Shirley Manson

  Life Is Too Short, Embrace, Enjoy

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• I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

  Ernest Cline

  Morning, Stars, Growing Up

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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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 don’t know who has it, but apparently other people have been playing it which is why we have zombies cropping up all over the place. (Madaug) Yeah, two and three at a time, ‘cause God forbid kids should do what we did back in the old days and play in a room by ourselves. What kind of geeks are they raising nowadays? Geeks with friends who play video games together. Whoever heard of such? It’s the end of days, I’m telling you all. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Games, Play

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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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• I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

  Kurt Cobain

  Fun, Mean, Passionate

  "Cobain still an enigma / New song, diaries proof of his struggle with fame" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 17, 2002.

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• I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

  Rachel Caine

  Thanks, Loser, Misfits

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1909, Penguin

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• One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Darkness, Books And Movies, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

  John Green

  Stars, Fans, Tests

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.105, Penguin

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• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  Felicia Day

  Smart, Knowing, People

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• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Growing Up, Drama, Guy

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Attention, Pay

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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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• 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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• My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

  William Goldman

  Movie, Revenge, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.

  Banksy

  Firsts, Succeed, Call Of Duty

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• I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

  Rick Riordan

  Museums, Yelling, Sound

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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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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