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I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

— Douglas Adams Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires TV program (1996)

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

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Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

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