Geek Quotes - Page 11

• I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

  Jodie Whittaker

  Book, Reading, Quiet Person

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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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• 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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• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

  Rick Cook

  Winning, Technology, Race

  "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

  Adam Savage

  Inventory

  "Trading cards profile a geek a week for an entire year" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2010.

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Normal

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• When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

  Simon Sinek

  Wall, Book, Kids

  "Look On The Bright Side" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com.

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• I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

  Curt Schilling

  Athlete

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• I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

  Paul Feig

  Past, Guy, Groups

  "Paul Feig on the BridesmaidsSequel, Female Comedy, and His S.N.L. Dreams". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. January 5, 2012.

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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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• 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'm a geek to the bone.

  Jeff Dunham

  Bones

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sci Fi, Closets

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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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