"I've been agonizing over this. Not sleeping, not eating I completely forgot my godson's 40th birthday."

"Regrets? Uh... No. No, I'm-I'm happy. \nAnd you don't, you don't feel bad that you never got to... make the world a better place? \nUh... I think we did okay. I... actually could, um... I... I still have it. One copy of the... Pied Piper codebase. I have it on a thumb drive. I could show it to you. We won't... look into it, but, um... I just wanna show it to you. It's just got a couple things on there that I think... I, honestly, this was like when we were coding the best we ever were, so some pieces of this thing are... sheer elegance. I wish I could show it to everybody because I wanna show it to my students. Not my class, but another... I know it was in the desk. Okay, this is weird. sh1t, okay. Where is it? It's or... it's orange. It's this big. It's just a thumb drive. So, is anyone... have any of your crew seen it or anything? I mean... right here. That's insa... I had the... It's gotta be in the desk. \nIs it a problem? \nUm, no, not a problem. Um... It's just pretty fascinating. Although... if it isn't here... where is it?"

"When you set your mind to it, you're one of the most charismatic people I've ever met... and I have met Ira Glass."

"The very one."

"Errich Bachman is cremated... into ashes... and I put it in bucket."

"Say what?"

"Richard, you just told a room full of tech people that I'm a Christian."

"I spun together a few more servers. That should handle the traffic."

"I don't know. I was just smiling."

"Maybe start after lunch?"

"But I watched your whole TechCrunch thing online, twice. That whole spazz thing you did (moaning, sputtering) That was fucking priceless."