"“So if Wintermute's backing the whole show, it's paying us to burn it…burning itself?" "Real motive problem, with an AI," the construct said. "Not human…Me, I'm not human either, but I respond like one." "Are you sentient, or not?" "Well, it feels like I am, kid, but I'm really just a bunch of ROM. It's one of them philosophical questions, I guess…But I ain't likely to write you no poem. Your AI, it just might. But it ain't no way human…[Does] it own itself?" "Swiss citizen," Case said, "but T-A owns the basic software and the mainframe." "That's a good one. Like, 'I own your brain and what you know, but your thoughts have Swiss citizenship.' Sure. Lotsa luck, AI.""