53 Quotes About Geeks
- Author China Miéville
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Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?''Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?''Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.
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- Author Sam Maggs
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Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?
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- Author Atom Yang
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The call-and-response rituals of geeks were a thing of beauty, and allowed said geeks to identify each other across time and space.
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- Author Jean Baudrillard
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Every year, I verify here, alongside the intelligence of the mineral world and the animal kingdom, the proportional stupidity of the human race - the deculturated peasants and acculturated tourists, arrogant adults and children with their pretentious technical gadgetry and senseless chatter. All the other species are more docile and spiritual in their silence than this one.
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- Author Gillian Flynn
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He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool.
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- Author Barack Obama
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Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
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- Author J.M. Richards
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He was quiet for a moment. “So, in this analogy, you’re Mary Jane?” “You got that right, Tiger.
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- Author Les Solomon
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You are a weird-type person. Because only weird-type people sit in kitchens and basements and places all hours of the night, soldering things to boards to make machines go flickety-flock.
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- Author J.M. Richards
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Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sputnik corrected. “—is kind of like being declared King of Nerds.” “Co-king,” Sputnik asserted.
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