"Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another."

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Source : "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. July 1, 2004.

Jonathan Lethem

#Nerd Quotes #Fans Quotes #Needy Quotes

“The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.”
“Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.”
“The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.”
“Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion.”
“I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.”
“We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.”
“We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.”

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