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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter. -- Marissa Mayer
I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl. -- Lizzy Caplan
A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves. -- Patton Oswalt
I love the NBC comedies. I DVR 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Community,' 'The Office,' '30 Rock.' I love most of the HBO shows. I love 'Archer.' 'Archer's a great show. I'm big on Netflix; I've seen every episode of 'Freaks and Geeks.' We need more shows like that. -- Stephen Colletti
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet. -- John Hughes
Geeks are the coolest people. -- Elijah Wood
Geeks are generally the most interesting people. -- Elijah Wood
I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled. -- Bill Hader
My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks. -- Lizzy Caplan
I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show. -- Ellie Kemper
Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated. -- Busy Philipps
I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks. -- Seth Rogen
I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome. -- Paul Feig
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. -- Richard Stallman
I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite. -- Kurt Cobain
My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life. -- Jake Kasdan
I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot. -- Jake Kasdan
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke. -- Lizzy Caplan
Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages. -- Todd Park
I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet. -- Judd Apatow
I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good. -- Rob Thomas
Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth. -- Rob Thomas
Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect. -- Marc Webb
Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek. -- China Mieville
Beware of geeks bearing formulas. -- Warren Buffett
I've dated jerks, so why not geeks? -- Kelly LeBrock
I love working for a company full of geeks. -- John Lasseter
I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds. -- Nouriel Roubini
Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day. -- Judd Apatow
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. -- Bill Gates
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. -- Barton Gellman
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics. -- Temple Grandin
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!' -- Tom Seaver
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways. -- Adam McKay
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. -- James Marsters
A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. -- China Mieville
A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. -- Olivia Munn
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that. -- Martin Freeman
Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything. -- Masi Oka
I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me. -- Kenny Loggins
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
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. -- Olivia Munn
A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook. -- Evgeny Morozov
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. -- Jason Segel
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way. -- James Franco
The geeks shall inherit the earth. -- Karl Lehenbauer
Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. -- Howard Warren Buffett
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks! -- Diane Neal
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. -- Kirk Hammett
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. -- Eli Roth
I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. -- Steven Moffat
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
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
I feel it's important for the geeks to have a voice. 'Dope' is going to give a lot of people a new perspective. -- Shameik Moore
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
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. -- Bruce Schneier
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever. -- Susane Colasanti
Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage. -- Chris Cornell
Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze! -- Keiko Nobumoto
Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior. -- Stefan Fatsis
The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. -- Jonah Goldberg
When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact. -- Sue Gardner
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. -- Bill Gates
Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome. -- Stephen H. Segal
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders. -- Jennifer Pahlka
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways. -- Erin Gray
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
Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks. -- Kevin Kwan
I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me. -- Clay Aiken

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