Quotes / Even Nerds Have Standards

That's what we like about you, Mulder: Your ideas are even weirder than ours.

—Byers, The X-Files

"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."

—Stephen Hawking

So the other writers and I go out to lunch....I'm telling the guys that Jimmy Darren's coming in. To which they want to know, 'Whos' that?' I say, 'Moondoggie'. No response. 'Moondoggie', from Gidget. No response. I say, 'The Time Tunnel guy' . Nothing. 'Remember they guy with the turtleneck in The Time Tunnel? Not really, vaguely. 'Okay', I yell, William Shatner's sidekick in T.J. Hooker. Oh!! Yeah!! Sure!! These people have Star Trek on the brain. It's like it all has to come back to Star Trek in some way, shape or form.

—Ira Behr, Executive Producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents cellar
Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And posting, "Me, too!" like some brain-dead AOLer
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller

—"It's All About the Pentiums", "Weird Al" Yankovic

Getting booed by Valorant players is like getting wedgies by the anime club in middle school

— Tweet

Star Wars fans are the worst part of Star Wars, Trekkies ate shit for about 30 straight years... But hardcore Whedonites? They are to Trekkies what the Nation of Islam were to the Civil Rights movement.

— Cracked, "5 Reasons It Sucks Being a Joss Whedon Fan"

Daniel: Plus, in binary, Zero-One has no useful meaning. It's basically saying that the robots would name their city after something that has a null value. Doesn't make any sense.

Michael: NEEEEERD!!!

—After Hours, "10 Terrifying Implications of the Matrix Universe"

Only a true geek that is asking for a bruising would ask for 'sodium chloride' rather than salt.

—Joe Ford on Doctor Who, "Four to Doomsday"

When I tell people I’m a Jags fan, they kind of cringe their face in an apologetic way, as if I told them I have stage 2 lung cancer. Understand I currently live in Michigan, so that means Lions fans feel sorry for me for rooting for the Jags.

—"Why Your Team Sucks 2015!: Jacksonville Jaguars"

I got heat for sayin' he looks like Kefka from FFVI. Everyone's, "NO! He's Mister Sinister, you idiot! Stop bein' a BAD nerd!"

—Maffew on Stardust in WresleMania 21, OSW Review

"When I see people at sports teams doing stuff like painting their bodies the same team colour, I honestly wanna say this, '...Dude. I read about stuff like the chemical make-ups of most pharmaceutical plants for fun. The only thing that's keeping me from stealing your lunch money and screaming 'NEEEEERRRRRD' is the hypocrisy of it all.'"

— A Forum Post on DeviantArt about a Double Standard about fandoms.

"They're LARPers. It's like what Jer does with the dice and the bits of paper, except the people that Jer hangs out with look down on these guys."

— Graham, commodoreHUSTLE Growl

"Spacebattles stalkers are the best. I mean you have a site already filled to the brim with OCD nerds who obsess over minor, pointless details found in obscure snippets of popular culture and flaunt them like symbols of heraldry ... But even the freaks have even freakier freaks to look down upon and shun to the outskirts of their group."

—Rama

"Do you know what it takes to get a professional nerd to call you a nerd? I do. (Hint: It’s Glass.)"

— I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

Nerd#1: "...You'll never be satisfied with a MORTAL woman because the elf wenches are sooo beautiful you'll spend the rest of your life searching for that same beauty again. (Loud inhale) Yes."

Nerd#2: "Wow... You're an idiot."

—''Rocko's Modern Life'', "Canned".

"CinemaSins: When spacebattles says you're being too nitpicky, you know you're (sic) made a mistake."

— LordLucan

"I may be a sad case but I've never made a joke in base 13."

— Douglas Adams

"There is snobbery among anoraks, believe it or not. A philatelist may sneer at a train-spotter, and the consensus seems to be that Dr Who fans are beneath everybody. I've never agreed. Surely one obsessive interest is as valid as another."

—Louis Barfe, The Oldie

"At one point we had people ride on the backs of smaller Pokémon, and we felt sorry for them."

— Junichi Masuda on the development of Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

"Recently, Homestar Runner did a great cartoon about webcomics. Strong Bad, or rather the Brothers Chaps, leveled some criticisms against popular webcomic types, like the gamer and fantasy subgenres. (“They’re all about video games, gamernerds, webgeeks, dorknerds, gamewads, nerdgames, webwebs, and elves.”) However, some of the most pointed zingers were directed at the infamous ugly kid brother of webcomics, the Sprite Comic. (...) Even the Wikipedia entry on sprite comics reads like an extended derogatory insult on how terrible sprite comics are… and the entry was probably written by geeks pretty low on the heirarchy already, so there you go."

— Webcomic Overlook review of 8-Bit Theater

Dave (of Dave's Pin Exchange): Sure about that, sir? We've got Pins Monthly, New Pins, Practical Pins, Modern Pins, Pins Extra, Pins International, Talking Pins, Pins World, World Pins, World of Pins, Pins and Pinneries . . . the Acuphile Digest, Extreme Pins, Stifte! — that's from Uberwald, very good if you collect foreign pins — Beginning Pins — that's a part-work, sir, with a new pin every week — Pin Times and [wink] Back Alley Pins.
Moist von Lipwig: I noticed that one. It has lots of pictures of young women in leather.
Dave: Yes, sir. But, to be fair, they're generally holding pins. So, then... it's still Total Pins for you, is it?
Moist: Yes. What's wrong with it?
Dave: Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. It's just that the editor is just a bit... a bit...
Moist: A bit what?
Dave: Well, we think he's a bit weird about pins, to tell you the truth.

— Going Postal

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