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

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.

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.