"Deus Ex game designer [In regard to the lack of the World Trade Center towers in the background skyline of the Liberty Island map] We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before 9-11. Years."

"Ivan [Russian sailor at the Lucky Money Club]: I spill my drink!"

"Lucius DeBeers: We should have poisoned Page the first time he forged laboratory data. We don't equivocate about outsiders, do we? Mr. Kennedy mentions a "plot" during a speech at Columbia University, he's out, no discussion, no matter that we got him elected. But a student of ours, an initiate -- oh, heavens, no!"

""If black helicopters were really being used for 'covert' operations, then those responsible are doing a poor job of it." - Joseph Manderley, Midnight Sun Newspaper."

"ICARUS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! [Repeated 9 times in a public news terminal, formatted into a ">" shape]"

""Like two kids shoving each other on the playground, you never expect them to come to blows." - Alistair Brooks about nuclear brinkmanship"

""No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid..." - The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K Chesterton"

""The Templar Knights had once been subject to no king or law; but in the end, they were swallowed by history." - The Red Cross: A History of the Knights Templar by Richard Baigent (Volume Four: Descent into Shadows)"

""Drink more, think less" (Beer advertisement near NSF generator warehouse)"

""The individual may be remembered, but the organization persists and thrives. A single artist, a single general, a single hero or a single villain may all die, but it is impossible to kill a people, a nation, an idea - except when that idea has grown weak and is overpowered by one that is stronger." - The Doctrine of the Mighty by the Majestic Council of the Twelve"

""From: AGrossman//UnderNet.7823.37.908 To: WGibson//VersaLife.980.73.01 Subject: Finally Beat ItI managed to nail Nethack v54.3.1 just a few minutes ago. Made it past the Astral Plane, and _then_ back in time to work through all of history up to Nethack v3.2.3 (this, of course, has been in every version since 48.2), but after that the game jumped a thousand years into the future and I had to build an entire interstellar trading alliance (with only the Amulet of Yendor) before the aliens from the other side of the black holes showed up...took me six months to solve that part of the game, and then I finally won.Check it out: www.nethack.orgI hear v54.3.3 should be out next week.Austin" - Email found in the VersaLife computer network"

""It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." - John Milton, Paradise Lost"

""Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks to emperors. Today we kneel only to truth." - Kahlil Gibran"

""If there were no god, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire"

"Real conspiracies. Severe consequences. Intense action role-playing."

"Trust no one. Question everything.."

"Jay Anthony Franke - J.C. Denton, Paul Denton, Daedalus"

"Cliff Stephens - Bob Page, Ford Schick"

"Tom Hall - Walton Simons, Howard Strong, Morpheus"

"Peter Marquardt - Helios, Icarus"

"John William Galt - Joseph Manderley, Jock, Tracer Tong, Lucius DeBeers"

"Jeff Groteboer - Gunther Hermann"

"Carolyn McCormick - Anna Navarre, Janice Reed, Maggie Chow"

"Sean Hennigan - Jaime Reyes, Juan Lebedev, Morgan Everett, Sam Carter"

"Richard Zangrande Gaubert - Alex Jacobson"

"Randy Tallman - Stanton Dowd"

"Brent Anderson - Harley Filben"

"Khary Payton - JoJo Fine, Smuggler"

"Ellen Locy - Nicolette DuClare, Tiffany Savage"

"Maxence Tilliette - Chad Dumier, Toby Atanwe"

"Ric Spiegel - Gordon Quick, Max Chen"

"Ron Tatar - Gilbert Renton, Joe Greene"

"Deborah Jolly - Sandra Renton"

"A corpse: yes. You feel something. I must know what you are feeling."

"I am ready. Attack my systems and you will suffer considerable losses."

"You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage."

"Observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government. Do not miss your chance to be one of us and create the new world order."

"I now have full access to your systems."

"In order to get our own message before the public, we too have been violent. We have even killed people. But it is the message -- the communication event -- that we target, not a few human beings, or a building, or an historical landmark."

"My vision is augmented."

"Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter."

"Bet you didn't know your mom and dad tried to protest when we put you in training. They loved their little boy, JC, and that's why they're dead. I'm sending up the man who did the job."

"You were just a prototype, Denton, a prototype for me."

"No, I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime"

"I am the top agent at UNATCO. It is different now. Mr. Simons said if I defeat you I can have any upgrades I want. That is a gentlemen's agreement."

"No, I cannot forgive! No... not the killing of Agent Navarre! I will follow you - Denton, I will get you!"

"Again they ignore me. Again they think they have a better punishment for a traitor than a shotgun to the head."