All-new geek quotes, modified to celebrate the new forum - (Jan/26/2009 )
Grandpa Joe:
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Brother Cavil: OK, that's what we in the pray trade call a lie.
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Moon: What I want you to remember is this, and I know it's hard. The real world is a lie and your nightmares are real. The Library is real. There are people trapped in there. People who need to be saved. The shadows are moving again. Those people are depending on you. Only you can save them. Only you.
Doctor Who
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
Fahrenheit 451
Hercule Poirot:
Agatha Christie: Poirot
Sheldon Cooper: Ooh, I don't think so. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the game of rock-paper-scissors, players familiar with each other will tie 75 to 80% of the time due to the limited number of outcomes. I suggest rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
The Big Bang Theory
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Rock breaks scissors. But paper covers rock, and scissors cut paper! Kif, we have a conundrum.
Futurama
Sheldon Cooper: It's very simple. Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
The Big Bang Theory
..no conundrum there....tho quite circular...
McCoy: Spock... I mean, that it's, uh... it's odd for a non-Vulcan. Um... the ears make all the difference.
Star Trek
Londo Mollari: I know what the doctor said. It was my heart that betrayed me, not my ears.
Babylon 5