"The brooding, arrogant guy who refuses to take orders? Self-taught coder who looks down on anyone who's taken a class. You're probably an atheist or something more contrarian. You claim to be an anarcho-capitalist, but you work here and pay taxes. You've probably read half of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and it's about 50/50 whether you own a snake."

"We are in the seat of the US government, a government that was founded by people who were, at one point, ruled by kings they couldn't overthrow. So, what did they do, right? They started over. They came here, to the New World. World 2.0, version 1776. And the way we win is by creating a new, democratic, decentralized Internet, one where the behavior of companies like this will be impossible, forever. One where it is the users, not the kings, who have sovereign control over their data. This, I promise to you: I will help you end this tyranny by building an Internet that is of the people, by the people, and for the people, so help me God."

"Publisher's Weekly is a... terrible magazine, sir."

"Is that... is that a woman's scent? \nNo, it's unisex."

"As I understand, cars depreciate 10 percent as soon as they fall off the truck. Like that. So if the car costs $100, well you just lost $10. Did it cost $100? Or more?"

"This might be morbid, but the cold hard fact is that if Blaine dies on our live stream, this could be good for us. I mean, we'd get a lot more traffic."

"Every time we've gotten a whiff of success, a giant pelican by the name of Fate takes a four-and-a-half- pound shit right on top of us."

"Robots? Who gives a fuck about robots? It's the artificial super intelligence we should be worried about."

"You're not funny?"

"Why yes, the zombie script that randomizes user action in platforms such as Pied Piper."

"Yeah, I told her to give it to her Satanist friends out there. Looks like she did."

"Shazam... for food. No, Shazam's not my vision. Of course they know that you're not pitching Shazam. That already exists. This would be a Shazam... for food. No. Sorry. Language barrier. Do you speak Mandarin? Anybody? No? That's not Mandarin. He's a stickler for the accent."

"The guy is a joke. He's a boorish, pompous, womanizing douchebag who got lucky, like, 20 years ago. And hasn't done anything since then."