All-new geek quotes, modified to celebrate the new forum - (Jan/26/2009 )
Ando Masahashi: He says you guys didn't grow up. You read comic books and eat junk food.
Heroes
Hellboy: I hate those comic books. They never get the eyes right.
Hellboy
Lt. Reed: Sometimes I think you North Americans read nothing but comic books and those ridiculous science fiction novels.
Enterprise
Woody Allen: The Europeans like pictures that drone on, and I'm good at making pictures that drone on.
Wild Man Blues
(...really drones on and on and on.....zzzzzzzzzz......)
German Film Critic: Hollywood makes a dozen really good films each year, but we must sift through hundreds of crappy movies to find them.
Crap Shoot: The Documentary
yup
Steven Hyde: The three TRUE branches of the government are military, corporate and Hollywood.
That '70s Show
Noam Chomsky: When the state looses the bludgeon... you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
" All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
Isaiah Berlin
"I'm not surprised," said Bernard. "It's flatly against all their sleep-teaching. Remember, they've had at least a quarter of a million warnings against solitude."
Huxley's Brave New World
Hidetora: Only the birds and the beasts live in solitude.
Ran