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Geek Wisdom
Noah Jemisin | Genevieve Valentine | Eric San Juan | Zaki Hasan | Stephen H. Segal

Geek Wisdom

the sacred teachings of nerd culture

Quirck Books (Aug 02, 2011)
9781594745270
| Hardcover
224 pages | 135 x 183 mm | English
Dewey 306
LC Classification PN6084.C556 .G44 2011
LC Control No. 2011922702

Subject

  • Humor

Plot

THE GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH.Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don’t—something we all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful and oft-cited quotes from movies (“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”), television (“Now we know—and knowing is half the battle”), literature (“All that is gold does not glitter”), games, science, the Internet, and more. Now these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11. Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it’s just so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read it. So say we all.