"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"

""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"

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

"[if JC kills the man who killed his parents] Barely a scratch. You're a little faster on your feet than your daddy was."

"I will be the one to merge! The one to see and know everything, to rule, to rule everything..."

"What's the rush? Take a look around. This facility is where you were born. I've arranged an appropriate fate for you through the hallway to the north. A poetic death, just a few yards away from where you were created."

"I'm always pleased to see one of my experiments perform so well. You aren't even afraid, are you? We got a lot of things right when we made you Denton, but don't worry -- I know your weaknesses."

"A cure? A cure!? Do you have any idea how easy it will be for me to make a new virus? All I have to do is find a very large prime number and multiply."

"All right. I get the picture. You want a piece of the pie, or you're going to toss the whole pie out the window. Fair enough. You can have anything you want. How about Europe? Your own continent. Just let me complete my preparations..."

"What do you want? Money? You can have VersaLife, the whole damn company. Power? I'll get you on Mead's cabinet! I'm serious, just forget about that last reactor!"

"A moment more, and I will be like nothing you've ever seen; a new life-form, everywhere and nowhere, like air or radiation, redundant, self-replicating, always evolving..."

"Look at you: You're nothing but a little man... a little man still living inside a body. Lose your body and what are you? Nothing! You vanish! You die..."

"Soon I will leave this body and death will have no meaning."

"No! You fool!... Helios will destroy you. I'm the only one who can merge and take control. Wait for ME! I promise you will have a place in the new order..."

"Go ahead! Blow this place sky-high... You might get rid of ME, but you'll take down Aquinas, the power grid, the whole electronic infrastructure - is that what you want?! Are you completely nuts?!"

"No! Don't listen to Everett. He and the Illuminati have been afraid from the beginning, afraid of US, afraid of nano-augmentation. Consider your powers, your strength, your intelligence. You've only had a small taste. Let me finish the project! Let me bring infinite power to the human body! You will not be left behind..."

"I'll make you a deal. Leave now and you will be made comfortable under the new world order."