History Quotes / WalkingTechbane

->'''Ellen''': Let me tell you something. I've been repairing computers since I was twelve. And, although computer science is supposed to be a really logical, hard science kind of thing... I swear to you, I've come to believe in the existence of gremlins. \\
'''Ellen''': I've seen hundreds - literally hundreds - of cases where someone who's "not good with computers" does something, it causes an error, and I do the same thing and... it doesn't. Or they bring in a box and as soon as I plug it in, the glitch mysteriously vanishes.\\
'''Jamie''': So you're telling me that my laptop is infested with gremlins?\\
'''Ellen''': Oh, gremlins don't infest boxes. They infest people.

->'''''Bilders touch''': opposite of the MidasTouch, wherein anything one comes in contact with will immediately begin to destroy itself. Named for Frank Bilders from VideoGame/FarCry2, a game in which weapons go from pristine shiny new models [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns to corroded jam-happy and explosive-prone wrecks]] in less than a full hour's worth of use. Distinct from the [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden touch]], where the end result is the same but an actual reason for it is given, e.g. magic interfering with technology as with that phenomenon's namesake Harry Dresden. Also seems to effect economic decisions made by the individual with the touch, if the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Market's insistence on ruining the value of everything I own is any indication.''

-->-- Prunelle witnessing ComicBook/GastonLagaffe in action (technically it wasn't Gaston looking at the fuses [[http://boyarnaud.free.fr/bordel/Gaston-Lagaffe5.png but his latest invention exploding that caused it]])

-->-- '''Renee''', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''

->'''Ellen''': Let me tell you something. I've been repairing computers since I was twelve. And, although computer science is supposed to be a really logical, hard science kind of thing... I swear to you, I've come to believe in the existence of gremlins.
->'''Ellen''': I've seen hundreds - literally hundreds - of cases where someone who's "not good with computers" does something, it causes an error, and I do the same thing and... it doesn't. Or they bring in a box and as soon as I plug it in, the glitch mysteriously vanishes.
->'''Jamie''': So you're telling me that my laptop is infested with gremlins?
->'''Ellen''': Oh, gremlins don't infest boxes. They infest people.
-->-- ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'' [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=19]]

-->-- Prunelle witnessing ComicBook/GastonLagaffe in action (technically it wasn't Gaston looking at the fuses [[http://boyarnaud.free.fr/bordel/Gaston-Lagaffe5.png but his lastest invention exploding that caused it]]).

->''"Machines and I don't get along."''

->''"I saw it, with my own eyes I saw it! He just ''looked'' at the fusebox, and every fuse blew out!"

-->''"This is why I hate machines!"''

-->-- '''Eastwood''', ''ExterminatusNow''

-->-- '''[[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'''

--> -- ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''

->''I can kill a copier at thirty paces.''
--> -- '''[[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'''

->''You are Destructicon, bringer of entropy and ruination! No touching anything ever!''
--> -- '''Eastwood''', ''ExterminatusNow''

->''I didn't lose my phone charger. It ran away. I literally repel technology.''

->''Machines and I don't get along.''

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--> -- ''FoxTrot''

-->-- '''Renee''', ''{{Film/Twilight}}''