There are certain phrases that are repeated throughout geekdom.  These are the ones I can remember off the top of my head, in no particular order, limited to one per movie.  What are some of your favorite movie phrases you repeat over and over?

1. “My Precious”  - Gollum - FOTR
2. “Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!” - Kirk to the sky - Star Trek 2
3. “Wherever you go, there you are.” - Buckaroo Banzai to his audience - Buckaroo Banzai
4. “I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum.” - Roddy Piper - They Live
5. “Shop Smart… Shop S-Mart.”  - Ash - Army of Darkness
6. “Uh Uh Uh, You didn’t say the magic word.” - Nedry from Jurassic Park
7. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” Obi Wan Kenobi - Star Wars
8. “Welcome to the Real World” - Morpheous - The Matrix
9. “We are the knights who say… ‘Ni!’ - The Knights of Ni to King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10. “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” - Hal to Dave in 2001

With great anticipation I clicked on the link from Digg, wondering what interestingly geeky movies I might have missed.

Delightfully, however, it turns out I’ve seen all of them, and own most of them.

The comments hold a bunch of others, and I would have to say that:

1) The Star Wars and LOTR sagas both need to be in the list.

2) I would have put Blade Runner in place of Darkman

3) Sneakers was lame.

4) I liked Primer, but it is pretty confusing, and not for everyone.

5) same for Donnie Darko

6) 2001 probably should be in the list

7) Independence Day isn’t really imaginative enough to deserve to be on the list.

Tron - meh.

9) Jurassic Park is a must!

10) Dark Star is quite good, but definitely not for everyone.

11) Silent Runnings - the same

12) Alien and Terminator both belong.  Predator, not so much

13) Big Trouble in Little China & Buckaroo Banzai are two of my all-time favorite geek movies.
14) The original Planet of the Apes series is great campy fun.  The new one sucked.

• What is a useful application of the Y Combinator? I found a JavaScript example, which I understand syntactically, but I don’t see the point. Is it just the “flavor of the month” in geek one-uppedness?
• Finding an implementation of Haskell that runs on MacOS would appear to be an exercise in pain and IRC. Both of which I try to avoid.
• I love the way that everyone and their brother is telling us what the “characteristics of a great programmer” are. Two observations:
1. The lists are always different in significant ways
2. The writer always seems to feel that they themselves have most, if not all, of the characteristics of a great programmer.

So really these posts should all be read as “Here’s why I’m a great programmer.”
Update: Reg Braithwaite says “Learn the Y Combinator because it makes you a better programmer.” He then proceeds to write a blog post showing how he does exactly that. Which, while I respect Reg a lot, is yet another example of “Here’s why I’m a great programmer.” Reg’s approach, of course, is completely different from all the other posts on the same subject.

For the sake of argument, assume that every single of them is telling the truth, and that they are all, in fact, great programmers. What can you infer from that?

Update 2: In the comments, Reg insists he is not, in fact, a great programmer.  I’m not sure I can agree with him on that :)   He also insists that his approach will make one a better programmer, not a great programmer.