100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know

peterchen

I don#t care much about Oppenheimers bum... But your fix certainly has a ring to it.

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Lost User

That was a good crack.

Marc Clifton

It's sort of a sad thing when quotes come from movies, not books. :sigh: Marc

Mark_Wallace

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

It's Ben Parker's advice to Peter Parker.

Minus 20 geek points! It was commentary on the last page of the story.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Dr Walt Fair PE

That's what they says at the whore house: more bang for the buck.

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Rage

Well, I bet you could find screenplays for these, which technically are books. And I also know quotes from books, for instance, mmmhh, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". But that does not fit in the Geek requirement.

dbrenth

This is actually a variant of a biblical verse Luke 12:48. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

Brent

Euhemerus

Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:

That's what they says at the whore house: more bang for the buck.

This would be Scotty from Star Trek To a well hung Capt Kirk in the same establishment: "She canna take any more, captain."

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Pete OHanlon

I know it's on the last page. However, he asked where he heard it - and that's the scene in the Spider-man movie (unless he watched the Making of Spider-man special); so you lose 40 points and my reputation as a geek is unharmed. Don't mess with somebody who's watched that film with his kids 30 or so times in the last year.

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BrainiacV

I agree with your choices and add a few more... "I want a new car! Something that goes really, really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!" - RoboCop "You're on a 'need to know' basis, and you don't need to know." - The Rock "They haven't seen the heat ray yet." - The Artilleryman, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds "I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would help." - WarGames

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Michael J Churchill

I prefer the adaptation from the movie "Kick-Ass": With no power comes no responsibility.

DragonsRightWing

peterchen wrote:

No, that was "with great power comes great boom!"

Actually, I think that was from "The 5th Element" - "With great power comes bigga badda boom ..."