Chris Hardwick Quotes

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

We're gonna have fun, god***it!

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

Things that are viral are things that motivate people to say I have to share this with everyone I know, and that has been more politics lately, and that's completely understandable.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.