"If you jack in at the office and juggle databases, you're a wriggling little user. If you get into what makes the pretty icons work, you might become a programmer, a much higher form of life. But unless you punch deck till your fingers bleed and your neurons melt, unless you bet your brain to get a microsecond's advantage over IC as black as hell, you're no decker." -- Virtual Realities 2.0

"In astral space, no one can hear you scream." -- Rick Beard, on mages and astral projection

"Unicorn, the other white meat." -- Mike Mareska, speaking on unicorn shamen

"Preacher? That motherfucker got God and technology ass-backwards" -- JayBone, talking about the Street Preacher in "Johnny Mnemonic."

"Load it and they will come." -- Solace, on weaponry

"If you can't beat'em, shoot'em." -- Abby Normal, street samurai

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em and backstab 'em!" -- Nate Craycraft

"Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness." -- from Steven King's The Golden Years

"Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale." -- Philo Gant, from Strange Days

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"Anyone in the United States who isn't paranoid must be crazy." -- Robert Anton Wilson

"Eat hot death." -- Mike Mareska, ready for a fight

"People used to dream about the future.  They thought there was no limit to progress.  They dreamed of a clean bright future, where science would make everything possible and everyone better off.  But somewhere along the line, that future got cancelled." -- from Finitribe's song "Forevergreen"