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Eric Packer: There's a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, that would be interesting.
Eric Packer: Yeah, that would impact the world economy.
Michael Chin: The name alone, better than the dong or the kwacha.
Eric Packer: The name says everything.
Michael Chin: Yes. The rat.
Eric Packer: Yes, the rat close lower today against the euro.
Michael Chin: Yes, there's going concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.
Eric Packer: White rats, think about that.
Michael Chin: Yes, pregnant rats.
Eric Packer: Major sell-offs of pregnant Russian rats.
Michael Chin: Britain converts the rat.
Eric Packer: Joins trend to universal currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, US is establishing the rat standard.
Eric Packer: Is every US dollar redeemable for rat?
Michael Chin: Dead rats!
Eric Packer: Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.

Didi Fancher: Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Eric Packer: The logical extension of business is murder.

Eric Packer: Everything is a tragedy. Dying is a tragedy but we all do.

Vija Kinsky: What is the flaw of human rationality?
Eric Packer: What?
Vija Kinsky: It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.

Eric Packer: I like your mother. You have your mother's breasts.

Shiner: People eat and sleep in the shadow of what we do.

Eric Packer: Violence needs a burden. Needs a purpose.

Eric Packer: What's the code?
Torval: Nancy Babitch.
[the gun unloads and Eric shoots him]

Benno Levin: You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cross harmonies between nature and data. You taught me this. You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise. But you forgot something along the way.
Eric Packer: What?
Benno Levin: The importance of the lopsided. The thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance - beautiful balance, equals parts, equal sides, I know this. I know you.

Eric Packer: [trying to make his gun works] Nancy Babitch.

Vija Kinsky: Destroy the past, make the future.

Vija Kinsky: People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units. A box, a screen, a keyboard, are melting into the texture of everyday life. Is this not true?
Eric Packer: Even the word computer.
Vija Kinsky: Even the word computer sounds backward and dumb.

Vija Kinsky: The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

Elise Shifrin: Where is your office? What do you do exactly? You know things, I think this is what you do. I think you acquire information and turn it into something awful.

Eric Packer: Holes are interesting. There are books about holes.
Benno Levin: There are books about... shit.

[first lines]
Torval: Where?
Eric Packer: I wanna a haircut.
Torval: The president's in town.
Eric Packer: We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval: You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer: Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval: United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer: Show me my car.

Elise Shifrin: I don't like saying this but... you smell of sex.

Eric Packer: The phenomenon of reputation is a delicate thing. A person raises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Eric Packer: For someone your age and your gifts, there's only one thing in the world worth pursuing both professionally and intellectually.
Michael Chin: What is it, Michael?
Eric Packer: The interaction between technology and capital, the inseparability.
Michael Chin: High school was the last true challenge.

Elise Shifrin: [on meeting her husband] You absolutely reek of sexual discharge.

Didi Fancher: I read about it of course, in the papers. Or did I see it on TV?
Eric Packer: What?
Didi Fancher: What? The wedding! What! Strange you didn't tell me.
Eric Packer: It's not so strange.
Didi Fancher: Not so strange... Two great fortunes, like one of those great arranged marriages.
Eric Packer: Except I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.

Benno Levin: You are foully and berserkly rich.

Andre Petrescu: [boasting about how many pies he has thrown at famous people] I quiched the Sultan of Brunei, in his bath!

Eric Packer: [Kendra is holding a taser gun] Stun me. I mean it. I want you to do it Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the switch. Aim and fire. I want all the voltage the weapon holds. Now.

Elise Shifrin: Where were you going?
Eric Packer: To get a haircut.
Elise Shifrin: Do you need a haircut?
Eric Packer: I need anything you can give me.

[repeated line]
Eric Packer: My prostate is asymmetrical.

Benno Levin: You want me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all I could be was helpless.

Vija Kinsky: [on the protests] It's unoriginal.
Eric Packer: What's original?

Eric Packer: You eat breakfast yet?
Elise Shifrin: No.
Eric Packer: Good, I'm hungry for something thick and chewy.

Eric Packer: Richard.
Benno Levin: [shouting] I wanna be known as Benno!

Eric Packer: How old are you? I'm interested.
Benno Levin: Do you think people like me can't happen?
Eric Packer: How old?
Benno Levin: We happen... 41.
Eric Packer: A prime number.
Benno Levin: But not an interesting one.

Benno Levin: I wanna be known as Benno!

Elise Shifrin: I like taxis. I was never good at geography, and I learn things by asking the drivers where they come from.
Eric Packer: They come from horror and despair.
Elise Shifrin: Yes, exactly. One learns about the countries where unrest is occurring by riding the taxis here.

[last lines]
Benno Levin: I want you to heal me, save me. I wanted you to save me.

Eric Packer: [while undergoing a prostate exam] Oh, that whole sad business of Judeo-Christian jogging. You were not born to run. Look at you, I know what you are. You're slouch-bodied, smelly and wet. A woman who was born to sit strapped in a chair, while a man tells her how much she excites him.
Jane Melman: [breathlessly] How come we've never spent this kind of time together?
Dr. Ingram: [finishing up] Your prostate is asymmetrical.

Eric Packer: Put a stick of gum in your mouth and try not to chew it.

Eric Packer: Right! Why am I here?
Benno Levin: You have to tell me. Some kind of unexpected failure. Shocked with self esteem.

Vija Kinsky: This is also the hallmark of capitalist thought: enforced destruction. All industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed, and old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, remake the future.

Eric Packer: The city eats and sleep noise. It makes noise out of every century. It makes the same noise it made in the 17th century, along with all the other noises that have evolved since then. But I don't mind the noise - the noise energizes me. The important thing is that it's there.

Eric Packer: You smoke since when?
Elise Shifrin: I took it up when I was 15. It's one of those things a girl picks up - tells her she's more than a skinny body that no one looks at. There's a certain drama in her life.
Eric Packer: She notices herself, then other people notice her, and she marries one of them, and they go to dinner.

Elise Shifrin: I'll tell you what the problem is. I don't know how to be indifferent. I can't master this and it makes me susceptible to pain. In other words, it hurts.

Benno Levin: [unseen and shouting] Eric Michael Packer!

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