1995 September 22, Andrew Kevin Walker, Se7en, New Line Cinema:
Mills: Just because a fucker’s got a library card doesn't make him Yoda.
1997 August 1, Alan B. McElroy, Spawn, New Line Cinema:
Spawn: All right, Yoda, just hold on.
2000 December 4, Joellen Perry, “Online with the show.”, in U.S. News & World Report[1], volume 129, number 22, page 52:
The Web opens doors to aspiring auteurs / Click on the tiny cupboard near Virtual Rob's right calf, and a knee-high Yoda doll emerges with words of wisdom for the young would-be Jedi knight.
2000 December 14, Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, Miss Congeniality, Warner Brothers:
Gracie Hart: I'll do whatever you want, Yoda.
2002, Melinda Davis, The New Culture of Desire, 5 Radical New Strategies That Will Change Your Business and Your Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
Unlike other vendors’ services, which typically “pass off” on the problem if it does not involve their product—Intel's plan was to act as the Yoda of all consumer tech problems.
2005 January, “Births and Deaths”, in Popular Science, volume 266, number 1, page 49:
The Yoda of Rodents: Born with a mutation for longevity and dwarfism, the world's oldest non-engineered mouse died in April at age four.
2005, Melinda Davis, The New Culture of Desire, page 209:
Life is just too complicated, too advanced, too risky, too hard, to go it alone without higher help. Without a Yoda.
2005, Mark Frauenfelder, Make: Technology on Your Time, O'Reilly Media, volume 4, illustrated, →ISBN, page 48:
LaMothe has something of a reputation within the games industry as the Yoda of game design. He doesn't work at Electronic Arts or publish million-dollar titles, but he does encourage and teach the next generation of prodigies
2005 April, David Kusher, “The things YOU can learn from kids' TV”, in Parenting, volume 19, number 3, page 114:
If you're looking to learn from the Yoda of 4-year-old communication, check out reruns?? Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
It wasn't uncommon to see therapists gazing at him between presentations as though he were Yoda.
2008, Julia Harper, Hot[2], Forever, →ISBN, chapter 1:
He was wearing a black Eminem T-shirt and a Yoda mask, and clutching a sawed-off shotgun in an uncertain way, as if he'd never held one before.
2009, Alex Abella, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, page 275:
If the invasion of Iraq was Star Wars and the American forces were the Jedi Knights, then the Yoda of the operation was former RAND analyst Andrew Marshall.
2010, Steve Dublanica, Keep the Change, A Clueless Tipper’s Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 94:
His head was full of wisdom, humor, and every drink recipe ever conceived by the mind of man. He was the Yoda of Hollywood Boulevard.
