"Venus: Don't worry about Snake. He's been to hell and back. He's a survivor, you know. Always has been, always will be. Takiyama: ... Venus: He'll be just fine. I'm always right about these things."

"Lucy: You're a cloned soldier—patterned after the legendary Solid Snake. We recovered his body from Lobito Island and created you through a fusion of his cells and our data. You were our Model 3, Snake."

"Alice: The Children of Hamelin looked up to you as a hero. You were a man created by those in power and performed mighty works for them. The Legendary Hero—Solid Snake. That's what we were always taught. [...] Our pledge was, "May me someday be great like the honorable and mighty Snake.""

"Ah-ha, a trellis. You could climb onto the roof and avoid the security. Never depend upon weapons and high-tech when there is a simpler solution at hand."

"Deborah Jolly - Sandra Renton"

"Ron Tatar - Gilbert Renton, Joe Greene"

"Ric Spiegel - Gordon Quick, Max Chen"

"Maxence Tilliette - Chad Dumier, Toby Atanwe"

"Ellen Locy - Nicolette DuClare, Tiffany Savage"

"Khary Payton - JoJo Fine, Smuggler"

"Brent Anderson - Harley Filben"

"Randy Tallman - Stanton Dowd"

"Richard Zangrande Gaubert - Alex Jacobson"

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

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

"Jeff Groteboer - Gunther Hermann"

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

"Peter Marquardt - Helios, Icarus"

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

"Cliff Stephens - Bob Page, Ford Schick"

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

"Trust no one. Question everything.."

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

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

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

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

""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"

""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"

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

""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)"

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

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

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

""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."

"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!"

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

"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."

"Door Girl: I order you to stand in the spotlight and growl at the women like a dog who needs a master."

"If there's a conspiracy, it's at VersaLife; they're the ones making money off the plague."

"At the sound of your voice, 400 milliamps will discharge into Gunther's midbrain. Poof!"

"Gunther went berserk after you escaped, smashed up the cell block pretty bad. I had to sedate him."

"Just fixed Gunther's knee, in fact. A sticky actuator. So far I feel more like a mechanic than a doctor."

"All the way down, JC. Get to Page's compound and take him out. Everett and I will join you shortly. We'll bring back the old institutions, the prosperity of the last century, the giddy acquiescence. Trust us, JC. We can put the world back together."

"Don't underestimate the allure of a well kept secret. Our organisation lasted from the Crusades to the early 21st century, and our only secret was a technique of meditation, a way of imagining your body dissolving into light."

"In my opinion, the history of the human race has been one long succession of conspiracies. To deceive ourselves, we call the successful conspiracies "governments"."

"The order hasn't so much lasted as been continually revived...It's the IDEA that has lasted. The SYSTEM. Or the DESIRE, every thinking person's desire to give the world some decent organization."

"I hope you remember this lesson, agent. They have assigned us to be partners, and I will not stop to hold your hand and repeat myself when we are facing a real enemy."

"I have never had this much difficulty with a trainee in my life."

"You are not afraid to kill, I am pleased. The last thing I would expect from the brother of Paul."

"[after killing JC] Nine-hundred and ten. I am catching up, Gunther."