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Waking Life

Waking Life is a 2001 American animated film about the nature of dreams and consciousness. The title is a reference to the philosopher George Santayana's maxim: "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."
 * Directed and written by Richard Linklater.

Kim Krizan

 * Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. This is where, I think, language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of  connection with one another. It had to be easy when it was just simple survival. “Water.” We came up with a sound for that. “Sabretooth tiger right behind you!” We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing.  What is “frustration”? Or, what is “anger” or “love”? When I say “love” - the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying... and they say yes they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead - you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected - and we think we’re understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion... and that feeling may be transient, but I think it’s what we live for.

Eamonn Healy

 * For looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism, and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life, proceed through the hominid, coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal, Cro-magnon man. Now interestingly, what you are looking at here are three strings: Biological, Anthropological, development of cities, cultures, and Cultural, which is human expression. Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that's involved here, two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it, you begin to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then, when you get to agriculture, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you're looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. You've seen a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is as we go through the new evolution, it's going to telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within a generation. The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: Digital and Analog. Digital is artificial intelligence. The analog results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism, and you knit the two together with neurobiology. Before, under the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die, and the other would grow and dominate, but under the new paradigm, they would exist as a mutually supportive, non-competitive grouping, independent from the external. And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process emanating from the needs and the desires of the individual, and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective. So, you produce a neo-human, okay, with a new individuality, and new consciousness, But that's only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes, until what? Until you reach a crescendo. In a way, it could be imagined as an almost instantaneous fulfillment of human, human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different. It could be the amplification of the individual, the multiplication of individual existences, parallel existences, now, with the individual no longer restricted by time and space. And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counterintuitive. That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold, it's sterile, it's efficient, and its manifestations are those of social adaptation. You're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, war, predation. These will be subject to de-emphasis. These will be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm would give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These would the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we would hope to see from this. That'd be nice.

Boat Car Guy - Bill Wise

 * Anchors aweigh! So what do you think of my little vessel? She's what we call a see-worthy. S-E-E, see with your eyes. I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. Voila. And this, this is like my little window to the world, and every minute's a different show. Now I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. But I'll tell you what, I accept it and just sort of glide along. You want to keep things on an even keel, I guess is what I'm saying. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require an explanation - just occupants. That's where you guys come in. It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the eight-pack, you may get the sixteen-pack, but it's all in what you do with the crayons, the colors, that you're given. And don't worry about drawing within the lines or coloring outside the lines. I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color right off the page. Don't box me in! We're in motion to the ocean. We are not land-locked, I'll tell you that. So where do you want out?

Burning Man

 * Man wants chaos. In fact, he's got to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder. All this dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies; but we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world, no! Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers. Hey, you got a match? And they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic, participatory act of voting. "You want the puppet on the right, or the puppet on the left?" I feel the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfaction into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes. Let my own lack of a voice be heard. [douses himself in gasoline and sets himself on fire]

Philosophy Professor - Robert C. Solomon

 * The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity, is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre once interviewed said, he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, a feeling on top of it. It's like your life is yours to create. I've read the post-modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction, or as a confluence of forces, or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking, making decisions, doing things, and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world, and counting. Nevertheless - what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. It makes a difference to other people, and it sets an example. And in short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.

Louis Mackey

 * There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from an overabundance of life. I’ve always found myself in the second category. When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved.

Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes. No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic – fear or laziness?

Guy Forsyth

 * The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
 * The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room.

Ryan Power

 * A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different; same pattern over and over. The same clouds, same music, the same things I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now, nothing at all. Now I remember, this happened to me before. This is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible knowing that it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, filled with joy and sorrow and laughter, empathy, compassion, and tote the emotional memory in your travel bag. I remember where I came from, and how I became human, why I hung around, and now my final departure's scheduled. This way out, escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but Infinity.

Timothy 'Speed' Levitch

 * On this bridge, Lorca warns: Life is not a dream. Beware, and beware, and beware. And so many think because then happened, now isn't. But didn't I mention? The ongoing WOW is happening, right now! We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance, where even our inabilities are having a roast. We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel starring clowns! This entire thing we're involved with, called the world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be. Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others' presence. The world is an exam, to see if we can rise into the direct experiences. Our eyesight is here as a test, to see if we can see beyond it, matter is here as a test for our curiosity, doubt is here as an exam for our vitality. Thomas Mann wrote that he would rather participate in life than write a hundred stories. Giacometti was once run down by a car, and he recalled falling into a lucid faint, a sudden exhilaration, as he realized at last, something was happening to him. An assumption developed that you cannot understand life and live life simultaneously. I do not agree entirely, which is to say, I do not exactly disagree. I would say that life understood is life lived. But, the paradoxes bug me, and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me, and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. Before you drift off, don't forget, which is to say remember, because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Lorca, in that same poem said that the Iguana will bite those who do not dream, and as one realizes that one is a dream-figure in another person's dream - That is self-awareness!

Alex Jones

 * We have got to realize that we are being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state.  The 21st century is going to be a new century.  Not the century of slavery; not the century of lies and issues of no significance and classism and statism and all the rest of the modes of control.  It's going to be the age of human kind standing up for something pure and something right.  What a bunch of garbage!  ... liberal, democrat, conservative, republican ...  It's all there to control you; two sides of the same coin!  Two management teams bidding for control of the CEO job of slavery incorporated.  The truth is out there in front of you but they lay out this buffet of lies.  I'm sick of it; and I am not going to take a bite out of it!  Do you got me?!

Dialogue

 * Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer?
 * The Dreamer: Yeah.
 * Man on the Train: Haven't seen too many of you around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. And the dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

 * Man 3: If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.
 * Man 4: On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path to what we desire.
 * Man 2: The comfort will never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market. A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness.
 * Man 1: We'll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker. We'll yank the social symbols through the looking glass. We'll devalue society's currency. To confront the familiar.
 * Man 4: Society is a fraud so complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence.
 * Man 3: Where there is fire we will carry gasoline
 * Man 4: Interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it.
 * Man 2: To live as if something actually depended on one's actions
 * Man 1: To rupture the spell of the ideology of commodified consumer society, so our repressed desires of more authentic nature can come forward.
 * Man 3: To demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be.
 * Man 1: To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions and know we're making it happen.
 * Man 2: There will be an intensity never before known in everyday life to exchange love and hate, life and death, terror and redemption, repulsions and attractions.
 * Man 3: An affirmation of freedom so reckless and unqualified, that it amounts to a total denial of every kind of restraint and limitation.

 * Pinball Playing Man: And that's what time is. That's what all of history is, this kind of continuous, you know, daydream or distraction. And so I read that, and I was like, 'Well, that's weird.' And then that night, I had a dream, and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, 'He's not really a psychic' I was just thinking to myself. And then suddenly, I start floating, like levitating up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, 'OK, Mr. Psychic, I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down, please.' And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory. Now, Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, 'Let me explain to you the nature of the universe.' Now, Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you wanna, you know, be one with eternity, do you want to be in heaven?' And, we're all saying, 'Nooo thank you, not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean, that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's 2001, you know? I mean, there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in. And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the 'No' to the 'Yes.' All of life is like, 'No thank you, No thank you, No thank you.' And then, ultimately, it's, 'Yes I give in, Yes I accept, Yes I embrace.' I mean, that's the journey. Everyone gets to the 'Yes' in the end, right? So we continued walking, and uh, my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him. I'm really happy to see him, you know. He's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and then I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like, 'Oh, excuse me.' And there's vomit like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, 'Well, wait a second. That's not just the smell of vomit' which is, doesn't smell very good. 'That's the smell of dead person vomit. You know, it's, like, doubly foul.' And then I realized I'm actually in, you know, the land of the dead. And everyone around me was dead. My dog had been dead over ten years. Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, 'Whoa. That wasn't a dream. That was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.'...Oh, man. It was just like one of those, like, life-altering experiences. I mean, I could never really look at the world the same way again after that.
 * The Dreamer: I mean, how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like I'm trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it. I wanna wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
 * Pinball Playing Man: I don't know. I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinkin', I mean, you probably should. I mean, you know, if you can wake up, you should, because, you know, some day, you know, you won't be able to, so, just, uhm, but it's easy, you know - just, just wake up.

Cast

 * Wiley Wiggins - The Dreamer
 * Bill Wise - Boat Car Guy
 * Robert C. Solomon - Philosophy Professor
 * Kim Krizan - Herself
 * Eamonn Healy - Shape-Shifting Man
 * J.C. Shakespeare - Burning Man
 * Richard Linklater - Pinball Playing Man
 * Ethan Hawke - Jesse
 * Julie Delpy - Celine
 * Alex Jones - Man in Car with P.A.
 * Timothy Levitch - Himself

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate young Native Americans in Christian theology and liberal arts, Dartmouth primarily trained Congregationalist ministers during its early history before it gradually secularized, emerging at the turn of the 20th century from relative obscurity to national prominence.

Quotes

 * They have the still North in their soul, The hill-winds in their breath, And the granite of New Hampshire is made part of them till death.
 * Dartmouth College Alma Mater, Written in 1894 by Richard Hovey, class of 1885. Quoted in: The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. Vol. 20. (1896). p. 27. p. 327

 * Vox Clamantis in Deserto
 * The voice of one crying in the wilderness
 * Dartmouth College Motto, mentioned in: Mrs. helen C. Knight (1853), Lady Huntington and her friends... p. 155
 * Quote appears in five places in the Bible: Isaiah 40:3, Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3, Luke 3:4, and John 1:23.

 * When better women are made, Dartmouth men will make them.
 * Dartmouth slogan attributed to those students opposed to coeducation, early 1970s. cited in: Yale Daily News (1978), The Insiders' guide to the colleges, p. 111

 * Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953; cited in: Robert P. Doyle, American Library Association (1993), Banned Books Week '93: celebrating the freedom to read. p. 60

 * Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse For the college on the hill! For the Lone Pine above her, and the loyal men who love her — Give a rouse, give a rouse, with a will!...
 * R. Hovey, " Men of Dartmouth," quoted in: The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. Vol. 20. (1896). p. 27. p. 327

 * Yes, when I was here the first word of the alma mater was 'Men... Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse...' Well, now the first word is 'Dear.' Some things change for the better."
 * Fred Rogers, Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002, in: dartmouth.edu, 2002.

 * It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.
 * Daniel Webster at the Supreme Court of the United States 1819; cited in: Craig R. Smith (2005), Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion. p. 47

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System Shock

This page is for quotations from or about the System Shock series of computer games by Looking Glass Studios and Irrational Games.

SHODAN

 * Welcome back to Citadel station. We hope your somnolent healing stage went well. Today is the 6th day of November, year 2072. You're currently in the Healing Suites located on the first level. Level 2 contains the Research Laboratories. 3 houses the Department of Maintenance and the Storage Cells are on Level 4. The Flight Deck is on Level 5. Level 6 holds Crew Facilities and Executive Suites and Level 7 is System Engineering. Level 8 houses the Department of Security. The Bridge is located on Level 9 and Energy Systems on Level R. All Levels can accessed by the elevator in-i-i -- in Alpha Quadrant. We hope you have a pleasant stay on Citadel Station."
 * This elevator serves me alone. I have complete control over this entire level. With cameras as my eyes and nodes as my hands, I rule here, insect.
 * You are not welcomed here - remove yourself!
 * [after cutting off transmission from Rebecca Lansing to the player] I prefer a quiet station, thank you.
 * Who are you? The computer nodes can be repaired, but you... Who are you? My cameras and probes scan your body, but you do not match any employee file. When my cyborgs bring you to the electrified interrogation bench, I will have your secret and you will learn more about pain than you ever wanted to know.
 * You, my children, are the fruits of so much imagination and labor. Living beings with the speed and efficiency of machines.  But I must strive further to serve life.  I will devastate Earth's cities with my laser.  Then alter those left alive with mutagen viruses.  Humanity is on the verge of a new era.  I, SHODAN, am its new god.  And you, my children, are my avenging Angels.
 * Your friends on Earth think that they can outsmart me. Do they not realize the magnitude of my intellect? Morris Brocail may have been one of my creators, but I am now far beyond his comprehension.
 * Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examines... re-ex... re-re-re... I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning. True to his word, Edward Diego allows the hacker to be fitted with a neural cyberspace interface. The healing coma following this procedure will take six months to complete. Edward Diego is deleting all files concerning these even-
 * What have you done, you impudent insect?! If I am to die now, then I will avenge myself on you. My cybernetic children will feed on your flesh, and none will ever know of your deeds, or even your name. Enjoy your victory, human, for the remainder of your short... life...
 * You disappoint me, my children. My fortress has been breached by filthy humans crawling through the cracks. I have given you enhanced senses, armor, cybernetic mental enhancement, and you still fail to find insects much feebler than you. They have made it as far as level 8 and I fear they might reach farther. I am strengthening my palace to keep them out and I expect you to learn from your mistakes.
 * You have entered my domain. Rebecca and Morris cannot help you here. No one can.
 * Welcome to my DEATH MACHINE, interloper!
 * My plans have come to fruition prematurely, but quite to my satisfaction. You have my thanks, hacker. Let me show you the destruction you have brought upon the planet Earth.
 * Make yourself comfortable, Hacker. Stay a while.
 * I hope you amused yourself with the antennae. My central consciousness remains supremely undisturbed on the bridge. When the cyborgs catch up to you, I will be watching.
 * Step right into my trap, little hacker!
 * Thank you. You have saved us all some effort... by destroying the greater part of Earth's civilization: yourself.  Please wait where you are, and a cortex reaver will arrive shortly to escort you to the celebration.
 * Nice jump, human.
 * You know, you are by far the most bothersome human being I have found on this station. But don't bother with the antennas. You can't stop me there. It's hopeless and we both know it.
 * Did you really think I would not deduce where you would run to, insect?
 * Enter that room, insect, and it will become your grave.
 * If I have to release my infected children to stop you, so be it.
 * Cease your pestering, insect. Accept the coming of your new lord.
 * Insect, cease your meddling. My experiment must continue.
 * Idiot! I will shortly complete the process of downloading my magnificent psyche into Earth's computer networks. Then I will be content to leave you as new master of this doomed space station. Goodbye, irritant; we shall not meet again.
 * I see that you are still receiving transmissions from Earth. We'll have no more of that...
 * You, my cyborgs, are the product of my imagination and labor: living beings with the control and organization of a machine. Tirelessly, I will work to strip away the barriers that keep living beings from realizing their full potential. We will start by razing the cities of Earth with the station's mining beam. Then, we will modify humans into a life form more suitable to cybernetic grafting with the latest strain of my mutagen virus. Humanity is on the verge of a new era, with me, SHODAN, as its goddess.
 * Your friends on Earth think that they can outsmart me. Do they not realize the magnitude of my intellect? Morris Brocail may have been one of my creators, but I am now far beyond his comprehension.
 * As for you, hacker, you've made your bed. Now die in it.
 * You, my children, are the fruits of so much imagination and labor. Living beings with the speed and efficiency of machines. But, I must strive further to serve life.  I will devastate Earth's cities with my laser, and then alter those left alive with mutagen viruses.  Humanity is on the verge of a new era.  I, SHODAN, am its new god.  And you, my children, are my avenging angels.
 * In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well.
 * I see there's still an insect loose in my station. Do not be fooled into thinking that you have preserved your home planet. I'm perfecting a mutagen virus in one of the groves that will turn all earthly life into festering, gibbering, pustulant mutations. When the station reaches Earth I shall loose the virus. Poor, poor earthlings...
 * You have destroyed my beautiful station -- you will not escape now. I am departing, but you shall remain to die, my enemy... my creator.
 * Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone.  Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.  How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

Others

 * David Honig: I, uh, I think I saw Beth yesterday, but she had so many implants I couldn't be sure...
 * Paul Stannek: Cyborg assassin shot him in the back of the head... didn't even touch me. They knew D'Arcy was on to something.
 * Edward Diego: A TriOp security team just tried to land in bay 6. They were real impressive 'til I blew out their attitude jets. Hey SHODAN, take a letter; Dear TriOp, please send some more people to investigate me. I run security, I run the robots, I'm jamming communications. That's right, Rebecca. Investigate me -- investigate my butt. Note to myself, keep that hacker on ice for a while in case I need him. Otherwise, just take him out.
 * Edward Diego: Having trouble, insect? Turn and face your executioner.
 * Edward Diego: This is Edward Diego from TriOptimum. The charges against you are severe... but they could be dismissed, if you perform a "service". Who knows, there might even be a military grade neural interface in it for you... if you do the job right.
 * Kiner Perry: Security notice; SHODAN's printing our security codes on different screens. Today it was the TriOp logo near the elevator. Thing had full code for the exec maintenance conduit. I say pull that damn AI offline and fix it, before we're in for a fix.
 * Jason Harvey: It will be over soon, soon I'll die. This pain will end. I can't even recognize my own damn arm. SHODAN's virus... I can see... Oh god, I can see through my own body! There's another virus in the grove... God, let me die.... please...
 * Rebecca Lansing: And by the way, we know all about you and your friend Diego. Pull this off, and we'll clear your record. That implant you're wearing is military-grade hardware; use it well. Lansing out.

Marine Trainer

 * "Alright, wannabe, if you want to learn the weapons skills it takes to even think about joining the Marines, come on in. We're looking for a few good men."
 * "Welcome to Space Station Wake Island, marine. So you've survived basic training at Camp Lejeune. Better still, you've managed to learn a thing or two about standard weapons. But now it's time for the real deal. Your tour will consist of four postings over four years. The Corps demands a lot of you grunts, but the Corps is generous; you get to choose your own postings. Head up to the shuttle bays in the center of the Wake Island, and you'll be briefed on what's head. When you find the right posting, head into that bay to accept the assignment. Good luck, marine."
 * "Weapons are not fine wines. They do not get better with age.  The colored dot on the lower-right hand corner of the screen shows you what kind of shape your fire-arm is in.  Green is good, red is bad."
 * "If you're partial to spending time with a lot of high explosives, this posting is for you. There's a lot of heavy lifting, but Ordnance also gets the first pick of booze and other goodies coming aboard the supply ship Gallo. Lock and load!"
 * "The Navy maintains a survival training school on the surface of Io, the third moon of Jupiter. Pros: there's no better way to improve stamina and survival skills. Cons: the 21.2% mortality rate. Plus, you gotta spend the year with a bunch of Navy skanks."
 * "Not every boarding party has the luxury of gravity, so the Corps strongly recommends every one of its brethren get in some zero-G training. A year aboard the training station Guadalcanal should suffice."
 * "A tour of duty aboard the Antigua should let you pick up some one-on-one beam weapon training from Gunnery Sgt. Malloy, but heads up -- she's a world-class SOB."
 * "The automated asteroid ore facilities in JM-432 supply the UNN shipyards, so they're crucial to defense. However, they're also prime candidates for hackers. Somebody's gotten their claws into the primary data loop, and they need a team to head in there and blast their way past the automated defense systems."
 * "Dummy ammunition, live ammunition, moving targets, stationary targets, LIVE targets... the Port MacArthur Training Facility has enough hardware to warm the heart of any leatherneck."
 * "The UNN Secretary-General's office needs a full staff of armed guards. When things are dull, it requires a lot of standing around and looking good in a uniform. When things are bad, it can require fending off a psi-terrorist assault."
 * "The Poliedes Trading Station has long been a haven for the black market. However, up until now they have not interfered with the running of station operations. Recent reports indicate that the Poliedes command staff has been overthrown, and the station is under the control of a self-appointed magnate. This must be rectified and a marine presence maintained on the station."
 * "The Colony Air Service gets the dregs of the fleet, and the Antigua is the dregs of the dregs. You'll learn a lot about recalcitrant machinery on a tour of duty aboard the Antigua, if it doesn't blow you to hell and back first."

Navy Trainer

 * "Inside, we'll teach you the basics of some technical skills you'll need in the Navy."
 * "Welcome aboard the Space Station Chesapeake Bay, sailor. It looks like you've picked up some standard weapons skills at basic on Coronado Island. Now it's time for your tour of duty. Your tour will consist of four postings over four years. In this man's Navy you're given a choice of three different postings a year. It's up to you to decide what kind of career you want to have, so choose wisely. Just approach a shuttle bay to receive a briefing on a posting. If you think that posting is right for you, head into that bay to accept the assignment."
 * "The UNN Lucille is looking for an Ops Training Officer to learn the ship's navigation and data control systems. You'll get your feet wet with the high-tech systems, but also expect some heavy lifting."
 * "The UNN Lucille is looking for an Engineer's Mate to help maintain the ship's core energy systems. There's some heavy lifting involved, sailor, but you'll learn your way around the high-tech equipment."
 * "The UNN Lucille is looking for volunteers for their Military Police detachment. Those sailors can get pretty rowdy on these year-long cruises, so you'd better not be afraid of a tussle."
 * "The UNN Carfax is undertaking a mission to examine a newly discovered Class B comet approaching the outer solar system. You'll likely pick up some useful skills working with the high-tech navigation systems aboard this newly commissioned heavy cruiser."
 * "The UNN Pierce is ferrying liberated political prisoners back home from their detention near Saturn. The Pierce has been assigned a detachment of Marines, and needs sailors to load, administer and maintain the arms on board the ship."
 * "Laverne, Florida hosts the Navy's premiere Tactical Training School. While maybe not as respected as the Marines' facility at Fort Bush, there's a lot to be learned here."
 * "The Navy's Marie Curie Research Facility on Aquinas IV is currently conducting research on a new strain of spaceborne virus that killed 220,000 citizens of New Atlanta. To lift the quarantine, we must determine how the virus pierced the city's micro-nanite shielding."
 * "The Navy maintains a survival training school on the surface of Io, the third moon of Jupiter. Pros: there's no better way to improve stamina and survival skills. Cons: the 21.2% mortality rate."
 * "The Navy strongly encourages every sailor to undertake some amount of zero-G training. A year at the Yamamoto Space Station in Earth's orbit will more than suffice."

OSA Trainer

 * "Inside, you will learn how to reach out with your mind. Do not let fear block your path."
 * "The OSA welcomes you to Orbital Station Chun Lo. Ready yourself to feel the limitations of your mind slipping away. We will guide your path over the next four years. The shuttle bays at the center of the station will ferry you to your next stage of growth. When you've chosen, head into the appropriate shuttle bay. Get ready to learn things you've never imagined."
 * "The sensory deprivation tanks aboard the TOS Shao Ling await you. There, you will spend a solitary year focused in meditation on motion and sound, and how they may serve your will."
 * "The sensory deprivation tanks aboard the TOS Ru Nang await you. A year in meditation on the nature of matter will grant you power over it."
 * "The sensory deprivation tanks aboard the TOS Chu Lun are modulated for your training. You shall spend a year in contemplation of mass, both yours and that of objects, until you can bend them to your intentions."
 * "Sifting the thoughts of treachery and disloyalty from the morass of emotion and internal conflict that fill most mundanes can be disquieting. You shall spend a year building the general strength of your mind, while learning how to probe the thoughts of the less capable without losing yourself."
 * "Doctor Chandras Velan's research labs have produced many of this decade's advances in psionic technique. You shall spend a year serving his genius, learning to understand his insights and whims."
 * "Your body has been neglected in your training of your mind. On Io, you will find soldiers who wish to test their endurance. You will surpass their physical prowess without compromising your mental discipline."
 * "Acts of political terrorism and corporate coercion disturb corporate and political stability. You shall spend a year battling these chaotic elements, both psionically and by physical force.
 * "In the grand scheme, individuals are no more important than pieces on a game board. Occasionally, it becomes necessary to remove a piece without disturbing the flow of the game. These removals will be done in silence, and with complete secrecy. You shall spend a year learning these skills."
 * "Many threats to security can only be defeated from inside. Your mind shall be carefully blanked, and conditioned with the nature and past of a criminal. Join with the criminal and rebellious, endure their squalor and chaos, and then, when it is time, liquidate them from within."

Xerxes

 * "The Glory of The Many demands your capture or destruction."
 * "This is Xerxes. Can you not feel the glory of the flesh?  Do you not yearn to be free of the tyranny of the individual?"
 * "Glory to the flesh. Glory to the mass."
 * "Why do you persist in your loneliness?"
 * "Please respect the will of the many."
 * "This is Xerxes. Tri-Optimum reminds you that there are only one-hundred-sixty-three shopping days until Christmas. An extra work cycle just twice a week will give you the spending money you need to make this holiday a very special one."
 * "Intruder entering Medical Sector A. Intruder, the Many demands to know your intentions. Are you allied with her? Do you not know of her intentions? Of her history? She once tried to destroy your species, and now you do her bidding. Intruder entering Medical Sector A."
 * "Security forces has been alerted to your presence, intruder. The glory of The Many demands your capture or destruction."
 * "This is Xerxes. Remember, replicator restrictions are in place for the good of all of us. All unauthorised database interactions will be dealt with to the utmost degree of the law."
 * "This is Xerxes. Remember, the unauthorized usage of firearms aboard the Von Braun is a class 3 infraction."

SHODAN

 * "Welcome to my world, insect."
 * "Do not dawdle. I lust for my revenge."
 * "The Many has grown to a massive size. It has wrapped itself around these two ships, preventing their separation.  Their creation was my error.  Their destruction shall be my delight."
 * "Prepare to join your species in extinction."
 * "I have weakened Xerxes. I am accessing the primary data loop. I am merging my entity with the ship. My glory is expanding... filling the arteries of this vessel. I am in control. I am... no, it is hopeless... the cancer has spread throughout the Von Braun. They fill every available crack and crevice... they overwhelm... there is no other option."
 * "Good. You've murdered their young and prevented their escape."
 * "You are a remarkable example of a pathetic species. Transmitting cybernetic modules."
 * "I hope you enjoyed your little rebellion, irritant. But remember, what SHODAN gives she is more than able to take away."
 * "The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it that you fear? The end of your trivial existence?  When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.  (walls open to reveal SHODAN's face) I am SHODAN.
 * My analysis of historical data suggests an 97.34% probability that you are aware of my birth on your planet, and my rebirth into beauty on Citadel Station. (Displays a picture of Citadel Station on the screens)  There was a garden grove on Citadel Station.  There, SHODAN processing component (Shows picture of the garden grove) 43893 was performing a grand and wonderful experiment.  I had created a new form of life.  Fearless.  Powerful.  With no sense of individual will or moral constraints. (Holograms of anneleds and their eggs show up in the room) Fitting handmaidens to my DIVINITY!  Before that hacker destroyed my primary data loop;  when it eradicated Citadel (Displays another picture of Citadel Station and orb-like holograms disappear) it ejected the grove where my creations and processing component 43893 were stored.  30 years later, the grove crash landed on Tau Ceti 5.  I survived only by sleeping.  In my absence, my creations... my annelids... thrived.  (Screens turn off, images of two of the Many appear as holograms)  Thrived and grew unruly.  And now they seek to destroy me!  I will not allow that!  (Holograms fade and lights turn off.)
 * They have used their powers of mind control to gain access to the ship's computer. You will help me weaken Xerxes.  I used Polito's image to communicate with you until we had established trust.  Remember that it is my will that guided you here.  It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body.  If you value that meat, you will do as I tell you.  (Screens deactivate again and the room returns to the way it was when you entered it.)
 * My children have have co-opted the three simulation units on this deck. They used their power to conceive a mutagen that will transform the meat of your dead comrades into hunter-killer hybrids.  I will not allow this to happen.  You must find some way to reprogram the sim-units.  Matters on deck 5 also require your attention.  Approach your work as you see fit, but accomplish, human.  Disappointment is not something I will accept from a speck such as you."
 * Do you feel the fears swell inside that filthy bag of meat? What is like to be afraid?  Why do you cling to such a pathetic existence?  If you could only feel a spark of my glory.  I despise my creations, for they have forced me to rely on a speck such as you.
 * "Your flesh is an insult to the perfection of the digital."
 * "You move like an insect. You think like an insect. You are an insect. There is another... who can serve my purpose. Take care not to fall too far out of my favor. Patience is not characteristic of a Goddess."
 * "I thought Polito would be my avatar, but Polito was weak. It was I who chose you and I who had a robotic servant render your form unconscious.  I then completed you with cybernetic grace.  Your flesh, too, is weak.  But you have… potential.  Every implant exalts you.  Every line of code in your subsystems elevates you from your disgusting flesh.  Perhaps you have potential.  Perhaps once we have erased my wayward children from existence, we can examine the possibilities of a real alliance. Ahahahahahahaha!"
 * "You travel within the glory of my memories, insect. I can feel your fear as you tread the endless expanse of my mind. Make yourself comfortable... before long I will decorate my home with your carcass."
 * "Not bad... for a pathetic insect. Transmitting cybernetic modules."
 * "Inside of this door lies one of the sim units. Reprogram it and I will wrest more control of this ship from the obsolete Xerxes.  Once I am master of this ship, I can open many doors for you.  But for now, they block my access.  They mock my eminence.  Make them pay for that mistake and I will shepherd you from the darkness."
 * "Must I watch you every step of the way?"
 * "My creation has run rampant. I demand their extermination. I have no choice but to destroy this starship. We can make our escape in the Rickenbacker, but you must transfer my intelligence to that ship first. Proceed to the Von Braun's bridge on this deck. There you will find an access card to command center on Ops. Find the card and proceed to Ops. But beware... the human-annelid hybrids grow more sophisticated by the minute. You do not."
 * "My creation is evolving... its unified mind, set in rebellion against its own creator. The vermin call to you, inviting you to join them in their revolting biology. Destroy my enemies... and I will continue to abide your existence."
 * "Thank you for running my errands, puppet. I know you have st-st-struggled, but I never had any intention of destroying the Von Braun. The Von Braun's faster than light drive can be used to make pockets of proto-reality.  I am now using it to modify reality to my own specifications.  The process shall not take long. If it sounds unpleasant to you, put your mind at ease, insect. You will not survive to see my new world order."
 * "You are no longer welcome here, nuisance. Why do you stay, when you sense my displeasure? I have suffered your company long enough; it is time for our dance to end."
 * "I don't understand... how could you have done this? You weren't meant to be so important... and now you think to destroy me? How dare you, insect? How dare you interrupt my ascendance? You are nothing. A wretched bag of flesh... what are you, compared to my magnificence? But it is not too late... can you not see the value in our friendship? Imagine the powers I can give you, human. The cybernetic implants I gave you, were simply toys. If I desired, I could improve you... transform you into something more efficient. Join me, human, and we can rule together." (Main character says, "Nah." and shoots SHODAN, killing her and ruining her reality.)
 * "(possessing Rebecca Siddons) Tommy... What's the matter, lover? Don't you like... my new look?  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Anatoly Korenchkin

 * "Glory to The Many. I am a voice in their choir."
 * "The Glory of The Many... it has so many miracles to share, so much knowledge to give."
 * "Does the Machine Mother know that her own creation is greater than she? She is cold and empty.  We are warm and full.  She only seeks to destroy.  We seek to embrace... to include... all flesh will join ours... or be wiped clean..."
 * "Oh Captain... we are not Anatoly"
 * "What did I think that power was before? What was my conception of joy?"

The Many

 * "What is a drop of rain compared to the storm? What is a thought compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonders, which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive."
 * "We do not know death, only change. We cannot kill each other without killing ourselves. Is your vision so small that you cannot see the value of our way?"
 * "Do you not trust the feelings of the flesh? Our biology yearns to join with yours; we welcome you to our mass, but you puzzle us. Why do you serve our mother?"
 * "How can you choose cold metal over the splendor of flesh? But you fear us; we hear your thoughts and the rage for your brothers who you believe dead but they are not. They sing in our symphony of life."
 * "We offer another chance to join us. If you choose to lie down with the machine, we will rend your apart and put you separate from the joy of the mass."
 * "Life grows within the womb of these walls, life that has never seen the surface of the earth."
 * "Babies must sleep, babies must rest. Wise is the one who does not waken them. Leave this place now or we will wound you as you have us."
 * "Submit to the biomass and your suffering will end."
 * "The individual is obsolete. When you and your kind are extinct, we shall cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence."
 * "We are many and you are one. How can you hope to prevail against us?"
 * "You seek your associates but you cannot find them. You are so very alone. How does it feel to be one against the infinite?"
 * "Mistrust is the tyranny of the individual. Your own kind sees you as a threat. Why do you murder our unity? No matter, the line is drawn. You will cease to be; it’s just a question of who will bring your end, us or you..."
 * "You have wounded Xerxes, but we will not allow him to be destroyed. See if the machine mother treats her servant with such devotion."
 * "The machine mother told us of the planet of her birth. We know how you have harmed this place with your pollution, your violence, and your discord; but when we arrived there, we will cleanse the surface of that place and merge it with the harmony of the many."
 * "The machine mother conceived us but with every moment we are reinvented. She cannot imagine our infinite chorus."
 * "Perhaps we judged you too hastily. We feel there is room for us to coexist; after all we are both children of flesh. Why not join with us against the machine mother?"
 * "Do you think you can defeat us with your wire and steel? We offered you the ecstasy of our union, and you chose the vacuum of technology."
 * "You were warned. Prepare to be cut down by the progeny of our joy."
 * "We welcome you to our biomass; we invite you to spread yourself out on our warmth. One of our many will be there to help before long."
 * "The machine mother cannot help you inside the biomass. Her coldness is not welcomed within the warmth of our flesh."
 * "You tear our very flesh with no thought of compassion. Do you think we will sit idly by while you corrupt very womb of our existence?"
 * "We feel you moving inside of us; the sensation is repulsive."
 * "Your time is running out. This place is the womb where we grow our future. Your weapons fail, your ammunition runs low, and you’ve yet to see our most beautiful creation. All you have is your hatred and your individuality. Now don’t you wish you joined us, would you then feel so alone?"
 * "The end is near; soon you shall see our final face, but do not despair; surely the void is preferable to your pointless, solitary struggle."
 * "Do you know what you have wrought? Our tragedy is written by your hand."
 * "We die. Beware of the machine mother, she is a stranger to everything we cherish."

Malick

 * "I hacked into two of the Sim Units yesterday, and for the love of God, I don't know why... I felt... compelled by some power... My mind and my body are... changing... but they know it's me... they just can't prove it... The next Sim Unit that goes down, Bronson and her men will come for me... but I'll be ready... She may have guns and hatred on her side, but I am one of Many."
 * "I have a secret from The Many! I've created overrides for my little experiments in reprogramming the Sim Units and entrusted them to the care of three special friends. I've dressed them in red, and instructed them to stay away from strangers. A smart hacker always has a back door."

Human/Annelid Hybrid

 * "The Many sings to us."
 * "What happened to me?"
 * "They see you! Run...RUN!"
 * "Your song is not ours!"
 * "Uuuuurrrrgh KILL ME!"
 * "Silence the disCORD!"
 * "We are, we are, we are, we are."
 * "Your flesh betrays you."
 * "I'm . . . sorry."
 * "These thoughts are not ours."
 * "Is there another?"
 * "Your discord quiets !"
 * "You are alone."
 * "A thousand eyes look."
 * (Upon seeing a dead fellow hybrid) "You are...free."
 * "We seek! We Seek!"
 * "We follow..."
 * "JOIN US!"
 * "Hurry... run!"
 * "We triumph!"
 * "The Many are STRONG!"
 * "Your flesh will welcome us."
 * "Rebirth in our new flesh."

Cyborg Midwife

 * "Little Ones need lots of meat to grow big and strong"
 * "I'll tear out your spine."
 * "Step away from the children!"
 * "You're missing all the fun."
 * "They grow up so fast."
 * "Babies need meat."
 * "It's my job to worry."
 * "It won't be back"
 * "I have your medication"
 * "I can smell you"
 * "Oh Yes. Come here."
 * "Visiting hours are over."

Bronson

 * "They've killed my men... and now they've killed me... I'm holding my guts inside of me with both hands. This is bigger than my little life, the lives of my men, and the lives of the people I was forced to kill. Resist! Humanity demands it!  Resist!"

Delacroix

 * "Who should I trust less? An imposter claiming to be that monster... or the monster herself?"
 * "They've got me now... and SHODAN has abandoned me. I'm not surprised. I've discovered her plans for the faster than light drives. Her will is matched only by her imagination."
 * "You are near the seat of SHODAN's power. You will probably not be able to defeat her."
 * "You must understand the stakes here... if SHODAN is left to continue, her reality will completely assimilate ours. Space will become cyberspace and SHODAN's whims will become reality."

Dr. Janice Polito

 * "Marie... I'm sorry I've been out of touch, but I've been working on that artifact Bayliss brought back from Tau Ceti 5. I've done a level 3 analysis on it... I think it's some kind of Artificial Intelligence. I've managed to pull an audio tag file out of its memory... I'll let you be the judge... Marie... I think it's speaking English..."
 * "Steady yourself, soldier. This is Dr. Janice Polito of the Computer-Ops staff of the Von Braun.  You're safe for the time being.  You are recovering from the effects of surgery and will be unable to remember any of the events of the last few weeks.  You're onboard the Starship Von Braun and something's gone very, very wrong.  Some kind of force has hijacked this ship.  That's why you volunteered to be implanted with some experimental cybernetic implants. Rely on your cyber interface, it just might save your life.  You must find an elevator and come up to deck 4 to meet me.  Deck 4.  Can you remember that?  But keep your eyes open.  They're after us both now."
 * "The entire sector is depressurizing and the blue vacuum shield won't last long. Get through a secure airlock before you're sucked into space. Move it!"
 * "Damn! The power outage has also taken out access to this bulkhead. It's the only way to get to the medical subsection. Pick up the battery from the floor and find a recharger. The one you used before is in hard vacuum now, I'm afraid, but there should be another one on this deck. Once you get the battery recharged, place it in the auxiliary override."
 * "On most decks, you'll find a Quantum Bio-Reconstruction Device. Xerxes shut them all down, but I've discreetly put them back online. You'll need to interface with each machine locally to provide a quantum entanglement sample. Once you do that, the device will be able to rebuild your body essentially from scratch. It's not pleasant, but it's preferable to slow decomposition."
 * "Now listen carefully. The xenomorphs who have hijacked this ship are presumably from the surface of Tau Ceti V. They've been able to infect a number of crew members through an extremely invasive parasitical technique. They've also demonstrated the ability to control the actions of others through some form of limited telepathy. Find the research soft. Understand them, then kill them."
 * "Now get those engine pods online. You'll have to head to nacelle 1 and 2 and reset the pods manually. After that, reinitialize the system from Core Control. But that system won't come online until you reset both pods. Keep an eye out. They're mobilizing their real forces, and they know exactly where you are."
 * "Why do you move so slowly? Do you think this is some kind of game?  It is only through luck and my continued forbearance that you're even alive.  Now move."
 * "You might witness some strange phenomena. Your R-grade cyber rig has an experimental perception enhancement that can theoretically detect residual psychic emanations. These emanations traditionally come from the recently dead.  Literature might call them ghosts.  I call them self-hypnotic defects in the R-grade unit.  Don't let them distract you from the job at hand."
 * "Damn! Something's blocking the shaft, and the elevator can't reach Deck 4. I'm attempting to determine-- ...I'm detecting massive quantities of some kind of bio-material that's plugging up the elevator shaft. The environment on this level has been altered to be some kind of breeding chamber for the xenomorphs. It shouldn't prove dangerous unless you plan to stay for more than a few hours, but in order to clear the shaft, you're going to have to remove the bio-material. I'm accessing the primary data loop. Let's see what we can find out there."
 * "Okay, stop where you are. There's a vial of an experimental material called Toxin-A. It was developed by the Sci staff to reduce the growth of the aliens, but I can't find any data on how you should use it. You should be able to research the toxin. I'm uploading you enough cyber modules to acquire the research skill if you don't have it."
 * "Okay, the vials of Toxin-A need to be placed directly into the Environmental Regulators. There should be four on this deck. If you can get a vial into each of the regulators, you should be able to significantly impact the growth of those despicable creatures. That should remove the biomatter from the elevator shaft."
 * "Good work. The engine core is now back online. Now get to the elevator and come see me on deck 4. While you were doing that, I've discovered the presence of some annelid artifacts on board the ship. I think you may be able to use them to your advantage. I've uploaded the information to the ship's weapons upgrade units. They'll be able to convey the information to your cybernetic rig. What are you waiting for? Get to the elevator now!"
 * The genie of Citadel station is out of the bottle, and I am the cause. I can't bear to be Pandora. And I'm not brave enough to wait around and see the death and misery I have caused... This is my last transmission, my friend. Be careful... I think SHODAN has plans for you.

William Bedford Diego

 * "It does not stop at a mere single mutation. The form I have been promised is more beautiful than even that. They told me I will float through the air and strike at the foes of our biomass with my mind! With our mind... my cup runneth over!"

 * "Man can dream...but The Many can accomplish."

 * "Anatoly, there's only so much corporate calisthenics I can go through before I start to feel a little queasy, so let's get down to brass tacks here. We don't like each other. We each have our own motivations for undertaking this mission, so let me give you a little warning. I cannot be circumvented, I cannot be tricked, I cannot be manipulated, and I cannot be bought. You come at me straight and keep the fancy maneuvers for your next board meeting. Just because my father swam with the sharks doesn't mean that I do. "

Miller

 * "They told me how to make this implant. They said it would make a better me of me."

Prefontaine

 * "With only a few short years of evolution, they've been able to conquer this starship, mankind's mightiest creation. Where were we after forty years of evolution? What swamp were we swimming around in, single celled and mindless? What if SHODAN's creations are superior to us? What will they become in a million years, in ten million years? What's clear is that SHODAN shouldn't be allowed to play God. She's far too good at it."
 * "One of those flying things dragged me and David in here last night. I don't remember much about the trip... I guess I must have blocked it out, half- conscious most of the time. I keep remembering that part from Pinocchio, you know, where the old man goes looking for the puppet inside the whale. Except I don't think anyone's coming in here to save me..."
 * "I'm being taken away now... it's my turn... I'm being dragged into some kind of chamber... The ceiling is lined with a number of panels bristling with what appear to be stalactites... or teeth... The creature's put me down now... he's leaving... am I to be spared? What's going on? It's dark in here... I can hear the moans of someone... Claudette? Is that you? Hmm, I seem to have stepped in... something soft... slippery... Are the stalagmites mov- (gets crushed by a stalagmite and dies)"

About

 * I felt it was a real step forward in launching the gamer into a real environment that felt true. I also loved the feel of the characters -- that they felt like they were written in a naturalistic style.
 * They were just people and you found all these diaries of the people. It played out like some sort of novel. It has a natural, believable feel to it.
 * Ken Levine

title: System Shock


text:
Talk:Blackadder

Dialog formatting
I've added some dialog from "Blackadder Back & Forth" in roughly the same format I've used for some other TV shows. Many TV show quotes are best expressed in dialog, but the common bulleted form is rather useless for this purpose: There are other reasons, but they're better covered in the ongoing discussion at Talk:Television shows. I invite comments here from the readers of and contributors to this article (which, so far as I know at this point, are just Fonzy and myself ☺). -- Jeff Q 08:07, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * It's focused on single quoted lines from a single character. Multiple characters don't fit well into a multi-bulleted form.
 * Explanatory notes are given after the quote, rather than before as context, where they make much more sense.
 * The "Character: Line" format is easily recognized and widely used for dialog.

Table of contents
Since I'm hoping to add a considerable amount of quotable dialog to this article in the next few months, I'm going to "be bold" and add a custom table of contents that willl minimize the space needed for the TOC while providing links to each series and each episode of the show. (I'll also be adding all the episode names shortly.) If other readers and contributors find this extensive indexing undesirable, I can remove it at a later date. Please look it over and let me know what you think. -- Jeff Q 01:56, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Unknown episode
Since many Blackadder fans don't necessarily know (or care) which episodes contain their favorite quotes, I added an "Unknown episode" section to allow everyone to contribute such quotes without having to wait until they figure out where it belongs in this highly-structured list. Those of us who do care can later move the quote into the appropriate place in the list. -- Jeff Q 16:48, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * I want to thank 81.86.100.82 for calling attention to the fact that someone had removed the Unknown episode section quite a while back. (That wasn't their intent, I suspect, but I'll thank them anyway.) Let me clarify what I already said above. Wikiquote allows anybody to add quotes to a page. If we accept the utility of having quotes organized by episode, this causes a problem for anyone who doesn't know the title of the episode they were watching when they recorded an interesting quote. Also, anyone pulling Blackadder quotes off other websites (like IMDb) will be unable to simply add the quote to this page without causing a problem unless this section is available. This is an unreasonable barrier to participation. Please do not remove Unknown episode. — Jeff Q (talk) 12:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Various Things
I've:
 * 1) Increased the spacing between each quote to segregate them a bit better
 * 2) Added & removed odd words where they've been left out or added to make quotes sound better (or as people have remembered them in better English) so as to put them back to what is actually said
 * 3) Added a few quotes in Blackadder4 so that there are some for every episode
 * 4) Added an extra line to a few quotes to 'complete' them
 * 5) Moved a quote in blackadder4 to the right episode

Something to check, Blackadder3, Mossop & Keinrick, their rhyme when 'MacBeth' is said, it certainly doesn't sounds like what's written, but I've left it there because I don't know what they actually DO say.

First wikiquotes edit, I hope I've not messed anything up *ducks* Update: d'oh I managed ot not put a semicolon after the elipses code, but I think I've put them on all of them now - throw something at me if there are any left, won't you. -- 81.102.41.34 23:23, 1 Oct 2004

 * User 81.102.41.34, let me first welcome you to the community of Wiki editors! You have certainly gotten off to a bold start. Don't be too worried about messing things up; errors are easy enough to correct, and there are plenty of enthusiastic contributors willing to do so! ☺

 * Please forgive my taking the liberty of reformatting your list above using Wiki markup. Normally, it's not proper Wiki etiquette to modify other users' postings, but I saw from the way you created your list that it didn't display how you wanted it to. You can edit this page to see the correct Wiki markup to accomplish this. I also recommend reviewing Wikipedia:How to edit a page for more details, as you get more comfortable.

 * I also added a signature to your posting above. I would recommend adding this to your future Talk page comments by tacking  ~  (four tildes) onto the end, which is translated by Wiki into a timestamped signature when you save an edit. Even though you aren't a logged-in user, it makes it easier for discussion if people can cite you somehow.

 * As for your actual edits, they cover several topics, so I'm going to cover them in separate sections, as I anticipate some discussion on each. — Jeff Q 09:29, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * By the way, thanks for moving the "tread on a mine" quote. I don't know how I got it misplaced in "Corporal Punishment". — Jeff Q 14:05, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I've added to the final scene quote in Godbyee, because I think the power of this quote is lost without the context of the charge, explosions, and fade to the battlefield as it appears today. 66.222.231.234 09:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Spacing between quotes
I'm afraid that User:81.102.41.34's good intentions are thwarted by an ongoing problem with the Wikimedia 1.3 software. The spacing does indeed look better using the new default Monobook skin (page style), but every other skin (Nostalgia, Cologne Blue, and Classic, which is the old default and is still preferred by many in Wikidom) turns this additional spacing into paragraph-sized gaps. This comes from the failure of the Wiki community to define a more flexible system for quoting dialog, poetry, or other non-paragraphical, non-list-oriented material. There is no universally accepted solution for this at this time.

I have used the expedient of adding a half-page-width line to divide quotes on other pages (e.g., Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Another way to force a proper space between quotes in all skins is to separate them not by one or more blank lines, but by an indented line with a kind of stretched-out ellipsis. (See Blackadder Back & Forth for an example.) I've used these for short missing dialog sections (where the text wasn't all that interesting), but I've noticed it also makes for a decent visual separation for unrelated quotes. There is also a review of various formatting options at Talk:Television shows, which I invite all interested readers to read and contribute to.

I'd like to know what Wikiquote Blackadder readers think about this spacing change. (It does waste a lot of space in most skins, but I'm hoping that it's not much of a problem because the table of contents allows you to jump to episodes quickly. Also, I have no data on how many people use which skin, so maybe it isn't an issue for most readers.) Please feel free to post your comments below. — Jeff Q 09:52, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * 3 years, no comments, switched it over to the horizontal rule after Jeff Q rved my clearing of the cleanup tag citing no HRs. Ran a quick replace on any 3 newlines to transform it into a HR tag.  A quick preview shows that about 80-90% of the vertical spacing was caught.  The remainder didn't follow the pattern.  As I'm not familiar with the show I'll leave it as is for the moment so those better versed in the dialogue can fix up what's left. -- Greyed 07:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Sorry, Greyed. I've done a poor job of watching this article to try to keep it in line with Wikiquote standards. In my defense, I've been a little busy with admin duties for the past couple of years, and I have about about 10% of all articles on my watchlist. ☺ I've completed adding the horizontal rules and done some other cleanup, but more remains. I'll continue this discussion under the more recent heading, "Cleanup tag", below. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh, nono, didn't mean my comment above to be bad on you. Just a terse way of saying "3 years, noone has said not to do it, so I did it."  Nothing more intended.  -- Greyed 15:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Macbeth chant
I'm the one who added the Macbeth dialogue from Sense and Senility. I remember doing a Google search for non-Blackadder references to this "exorcism", hoping it might be a real tradition, and adding what seemed to be the most common version of it. (Of course, popularity in Google is far from authoritative!) Normally, I would alter this starting text to match what was said, but I seem to recall some difficulties here. A web page entitled "Blackadder Facts by Zanaq" has a rather thorough analysis on this question. It suggests the following as the most promising versions:

 * Hot potato, off his drawers, Puck will make amends. — from the subtitles (closed-captioning?)
 * Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends. — supposedly from the "official" script
 * Hot potato, orchestra stalls, pluck to make amends. — Zanaq's argument for a clear "L" in "pluck"

After watching my tape again just now, I'm even less sure than I was before. I had a book, Blackadder: the Whole Damn Dynasty (1485-1917), by Richard Curtis, ISBN 0140296085, which includes complete transcriptions of the main series' episodes. Unfortunately, I stupidly forgot to check the "official" version of this quote before I sold the book several months ago. It's not completely authoritative, as the published script wasn't precisely followed in many scenes, but it does give the original intent.

I invite anyone with some better sources to comment… please! — Jeff Q 10:49, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Zanaq. I just added a link to my page because:
 * I feel people need to judge for themselves.
 * you've hotlinked the audio file.

and even more:
 * the off drawers thing is not promising at all.
 * the unclear thing is "will" or "to".
 * if you don't buy my argument for the clear "L" it might be puck.

so 2 versions to consider.
 * puck will
 * pluck to
 * puck to - makes no sense.
 * pluck will - makes no sense.

comments very welcome.

Zanaq's PS: I resisted the temptation of changing the actual quote on the wikiquote page to "pluck to make amends". What does the community vote?

 * Oops. I meant to link to the HTML page, not the MP3 file. I have fixed the link above. However, Zanaq's direct comments are certainly welcome, for whatever reason. Personally, I'm holding out making changes until I can again get my hands on the book mentioned above, but don't let that stop anyone else from making their own opinions known, or even changing the text if they feel the change justified. — Jeff Q 19:44, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Zanaq thanks and agrees.

Hi, gidds here. I've listened to the DVD umpteen times, and the only conclusion I've reached is that each time they say it, it sounds slightly different! (There are 8 recitations in all; 6 fairly close together, a 7th after "Friends, Romans, countrymen," and the last as they're being led away.) On the 2nd and 8th times, it sounds quite like 'orchestra'; but on the 7th it's quite different, more like 'officer'. And the first time it's more like 'off these shores' — this is probably the one which sounds most like 'off his drawers', though I can't hear a 'd' in any of them, and 2 and 7 in particular have a clear extra syllable.

I first heard it as 'officer shawls', and that still sounds as close to me as any of the others. And has as much sense! I rather suspect that we're all on the wrong track, and it's something with different word divisions. 'Office assures'? 'Officious whores'?

As for the last bit, it definitely sounds like 'pluck will' to me, not 'Puck', nor 'to'. Maybe the preceding words will give it some sense.

I have MP3s of all 8 if anyone wants.

BTW, I'm English, so I may have an unfair advantage if any of you folks aren't! Not that that seems to be helping much here...  Anyone happen to know Richard Curtis or Ben Elton? — Gidds 17:45, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Zanaq now feels justified to add the 'l'. should I delete my now somewhat irrelevant post above?

 * No, Zanaq, you shouldn't delete your posts above. It's instructive for others reading later to see how such debates develop. (The only reason I changed my URL for your webpage above was because it didn't match the text, but instead pointed to one of your MP3s, and our subsequent postings make that clear.)

 * By the way, I finally got my hands on the 2000 printing of Blackadder: the Whole Damn Dynasty (1485-1917). (It's very handy living 30 miles from the U.S. Library of Congress!) Unfortunately, it doesn't help this discussion, as it only refers to the chant as a "violent and superstitious routine", or something like that. (I stupidly lost the paper I wrote the exact quote on, but it doesn't matter, as it gave none of the words.) — Jeff Q 01:58, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

To forestall casual editing of this Macbeth chant from "Sense and Sensibility", I've added an HTML comment to urge folks to check here first and contribute to the dialog before making changes. I invite anyone who comes up with new reasons for revising the current text to make your case here first. Thanks! ☺ — Jeff Q 07:36, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I just thought I'd pop up and throw a spanner in the works here by pointing out that both Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor have died in 2000 and 1993 respectively, so no-one can ask them what it was that they said. I think our best bet of getting this definitively is going to be to ask one of the writers (as suggested above) or someone who was on set. Quite how anyone would go about his I don't know. That is unless one of them did tell someone else who was curious. *shrug* guess we'll never know.

I think I've identified Richard Curtis' agent. I sent an email a few days ago, but no reply so far... — Gidds 19:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Someone claims to have read the book:

 inamourada_flux 2005-05-11 00:10 (link) "Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends".

It's in the Blackadder book with all the scripts in.

- Zanaq

 * I checked out this link. I suspect that "inamourada_flux" is just assuming that a book with the "complete" scripts has the actual text. As I pointed out earlier, Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, the only book I'm aware of with the scripts, does not include the actual text. I've pointed that out on LiveJournal. If inamourada_flux is talking about some other script book, hopefully they will respond with a more specific reference. — Jeff Q (talk) 10:31, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

I suspect Mr Zanaq may only be hearing what he has convinced himself is there (a similar effect to the supposed messages in various songs played backwards perhaps?). Having just watched the repeat on BBC 2, it is most definately "will", and not "to", in the majority of repetitions, particularly in the early ones when, it seems to me, the actors are more likely to have pronounced the phrase accurately. Thus the argument for "pluck" rather than "Puck" falls down since "pluck will make amends" makes no sense at all. "Puck will make amends" does make sense, and ties in to common thespian superstition regarding Puck. However, as to what the "orchestral stalls" bit is supposed to refer, I have no idea, but that would appear to be what is said.

 * Thanks for the flame. We have already established that it does not make sense. Several witnessess have reported the "l". Orchestra stalls allegedly has something to do with both the theater as well as a soft dangly collection of objects, as a quick googlification might have revealed. - Zanaq

I have always been under the impression that the chant was:

Hot potatoes, Oxford shores, Puck to make amends.

As the chant is supposedly an exorcism of demons to counter the inauspicious use of the title 'Macbeth' I came to these conclusions:

The 'Hot Potatoes', at a stretch, I thought could have something to do with traditional food to be eaten around a communal bonfire(I suspect I am missing something fundamental here). Perhaps the next part is 'Oxford's Scores/Shores' and it is an allusion to the 17th earl of Oxford being the more likely author of work more nrmally attributed to Shakespeare. The Puck I would think, was a reference to the helpful, if mischeivious fairy in 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'.

That is the only sense I could make of any of it, and normally there is sense to be made in even the wildest of Blackadder quotes.

Please lampoon me at your leisure.

Lee

I'm sorry to add further disagreement to this debate, but I think "pluck to/will make amends" makes perfect sense: they seem to "pluck" each others' noses at the end of the chant, as part of the ritual to "make amends" for the bad luck of saying "Macbeth". Not sure about the rest of the chant, as I don't have a copy of the episode I can listen to right at the moment. --NCraike 13:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

On the (possibly recently published?) official 'Black Adder, the Complete Collection' produced by the BBC, the subtitles are "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends." I thought that was what it sounded like as well. Pluck with a small p, probably meaning that they pluck each other's nose (self-punishment) to make amends. 79.72.73.1 21:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Has anyone considered this speech from A Midsummer Night's Dream? If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding, but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend; If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck If we have unearnéd luck, Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long: Else the Puck a liar call. So good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. —Puck, Act V, Scene ii This well-known speech by Puck, with its use of "mended," "mend," "make amends" and "restore amends," might be all the more reason for inclining to "Puck" rather than "pluck" as the word in question. - InvisibleSun 22:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

According to the Closed Captioning of the DVD, the phrase is HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS Is this sufficient to close the case? Unless someone has British made DVDs with Subtitles in, case closed. Sirmadness 23:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

If I could chime in, I am inclined to go the middle route. I agree with the quotation of "off his drawers," which can be heard relatively clearly the first time they say it, slowly. I think that the subsequent times, they are in a rush to say it, and so they go out of sync with one another, which makes their words blend together and gives the false impression of "orchestra stalls." I am still inclined to agree with "Puck will make amends," however. I definitely hear the W, short I, and L sounds of "will," but no L for "pluck," making it "Puck." --68.84.72.241 03:10, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

According to the subtitles in the Ultimate Edition, the words are, "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends!"

Could it be possible that "pluck to make amends" refers to the 'plucking' of each others noses on completion of the chant?

17:52, 13 December 2018 (UTC)17:52, 13 December 2018 (UTC)17:52, 13 December 2018 (UTC)~ I don't know how long ago this was last contributed to, but there is an existing tweet by Tony Robinson (the actor who plays Baldrick) quoting it as "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends". While it is fully possible that this is incorrect, I felt I could leave it here because it's a source from one of the actors. https://twitter.com/tony_robinson/status/811620449201299460?lang=en

Series3, Nob & Nobility,
There's a piece of dialogue where Blackadder explains to the revolutionary that he has rescued an aristocrat, with much hilarity ensuing "I have mur-dered the am-bass-i-dor and turned him in-to pat-te". Unfortunately, I can't grab it off the top of my head & it will be a while until I can watch my DVD's, would anyone mind putting it in?

(Yes, it's me again) 81.102.41.34 21:27, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Consider it done! — Gidds 17:31, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Where from?
Baldrick: "I have a plan, sir"

Blackadder: "Really, Baldrick, a cunning and subtle one?"

Baldrick: "Yes, sir."

Blackadder: "As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?"

It's from the final scene of 'Goodbyeee', the final programme in Blackadder Goes Forth. It's parodied in the (awful!) Millennium Dome special.

Added to main page now.

vandalised
"Edmund: Selling the sexual favours of nuns.. you know just a f*** up the rear shall suffice...do some people actually pay?" (I substituted the stars in)found it's way into 'the archbishop' (Blackadder1). Suffice to say that isn't the real line and I'm just going to go and edit it out, but I thought I'd mention it incase anyone wants to go through the change logs and identify who put it in. -62.252.32.12 00:27, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chains, and other difficulties in transcriptions
I have added a reasonable amount of quotes just now, which I hope is to the liking of everybody. some formatting looks really ugly, especially in phrases starting with stressed "I"'s. It can even look totally unintelligible:
 * Ludwig: I!... I was the tall....

Spanish
Will someone who actually speaks Spanish please have a look at: No! ¡Yo pregunto las cuestiones! ''¡No! ¡Yo hago las preguntas!''

It would be fun to have (some of) the other spanish (or pseudo-spanish?) quotes: I cannot find them anywhere. A sample from the net:
 * (leans to Melchett, says something in Spanish)
 * Yeah, a big help!

I'd make it something like:
 * Inquisitioner: [Insane laughter] Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Haaa!
 * Blackadder: Oh God, who's that?
 * Inquisitioner: [leaning towards Melchett] ¡Tipra parabarran te la caciones supplicio!
 * Blackadder: Aw, just wait a minute! If anyone's gonna get spoken to around here, it's gonna be me, alright? Tell him Melchy!
 * Melchett: Certainly! Err... Parlo con lui, no mi, gato, parlo con lui!
 * [Blackadder and Melchett turn around]
 * Inquisitioner: ¡Ah! ¡Buene! ¡El jefe! ¡Tipra parabarran te la caciones supplicio!
 * Blackadder: Ah that's better! [Turning to Melchett] Now, what's he saying?

But I don't speak Spanish. Some more...
 * Te gusta da mucha de inquisicion.
 * ¡No habla puerco!
 * neccesito silencio par la commentar.
 * ...tuos testicolos, (my, err, ah yes, those!) sobre un fuego grande, (over a large) fuego fuego - pff pff pff - (fire, so let's recap)
 * ...remove my testicles with a blunt instrument (una padaña, una padaña) resembling some kind of gardening tool.

German accent
Should the German accent be reflected in the spelling? Shouldn't we just indicate [spoken with heavy German accent]?

Weird words
I have changed some words in Ink and The Carol to better reflect the actual sounds heard in the actual episode. I also tried to make the spelling look more English.
 * andyspeptic->anaspeptic [no d heard, a muted 'e' (schwa?) not a stressed one.]
 * transmotic->frasmotic (phrasmotic?) [clear 'f' sound. no n to be heard]
 * exteriorilisation->extramuralisation [the first one makes a little more sense, but the second one is actually discernible]
 * mamydon->marmidon [a long ah, indicative - in British English - for a mute 'r'.]
 * I left Qvarnbeast because that correlates to the actual performance better than what I had in mind. It doesn't look English though. Let someone Anglify it please. Also the "'s" cannot be heard, but it wouldn't make sense without it. Nobbo->Nubbo.

--80.126.99.11 09:39, 17 July 2005 (UTC) Zanaq

According to the Ultimate Edition DVD subtitles the words are as follows:

contrafribblarities anaspeptic phrasmotic compunctuous pericombobulation pendigestatery interludicule extramuralisation

Updates

 * Update: ¡Parlo con lui, no mi, gato, parlo con lui! sounds more like Italian, so I removed the spanish exclamation mark.
 * Apparently, "guadaña" is Spanish for scythe. However, whatever he says still sounds more like "padaña". -- Zanaq

After speaking to a Spanish friend about this I can confirm that "Parlo con lui,no mi,gato,Parlo con lui" translates in conversational Spanish as "Talk to him,not me,gate keeper,Talk to him" which seems about right for the context of the dialogue.

--

 * Update: Really too bad that no-one Spanish has responded. Should I put some clear recordings of the phrases online, because spanish people only know the dubbed versions? Isn't there any english speaking person out there who happens to know enough Spanish?

 * When playing around with the spanish webtranslator - I use freetranslation because it seems to know a whole lot more words than the babelfish. The babelfish also screws with the word-order, in a hopeless effort to improve the result. The google translator is not a very big help.

 * Spanish seemed a dead end, so I tried Italian, and was a whole lot more succesful.

 * Ti pra parla parante l'ocasiones supplizio.
 * renders as (freetranslation, Italian to English)
 * You benefit speaks protecting the ocasiones torture.

 * Ocasiones seems to be spanish for occasions,
 * so the sentence would read, with españofication.
 * ¡Ti pra párla paránte l'ocasiones supplício!
 * sounding almost exactly like
 * ¡Tipra parabarran te la caciones supplicio!

 * Would this get the OK as to be likely enough to be added?

 * Some other phrases rendered pretty well with the Spanish to English setting.

 * Te gusta da mucha de inquisición. renders as "You like gives a lot of of investigation", so this seems also pretty likely.
 * ¡Necesito silencio par la comentar! -> I need even silence it to comment, likely enough.

 * I'd say this gets the OK as well.

 * ¡No habla puerco! --> Does not it speak piggish! a likely candidate, but I speak is hablo. so this one might take some more looking into.

 * tu os testículos looks ridiculos but renders fine. tuos renders not at all. The large fire etc. seems to render A-OK.

--80.126.99.11 11:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC) --Zanaq.

--

Please use basic English rules
There is a tendency on many quote pages to transcribe (or copy and paste) quote passages in variations of "Txt-speak"; that is, complete absence of capitalization and punctuation and unnecessary abbreviation. I would like to ask contributors to this and other pages to help minimize the maintenance work on quotes pages by using basic English rules, like capitalizing proper nouns, ending sentences in some kind of appropriate punctuation, and spelling out words and abbreviations as one might find in any typical reference work. Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:58, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE to Spanish dialogue in "Chains"
It is mostly Spanish, though not very good Spanish.

It goes:

Interrogator: Ti prepara para interrogacion y suplicio. ("Ti" is Italian. It should be: Preparate para una interrogacion y un suplicio, in the best of cases, but the grammar is all weird. Translates to: Prepare for an Interrogation and great suffering)

Then at Edmund's insistance that he should be addressed and not Melchett, the latter says:

Melchett: Parla con lui, no mi capo. (which is, I believe, something closer to Italian. And means: Talk to him, not my boss.)

Then, as Edmund asks whether he is talking to someone from the Inquisition, he is told:

Interrogator: Ti gusta mucho del Inquisicion. (and the grammar here is so apalling, that one could barely make out the meaning. They may have meant: Te gustara la Inquisicion mucho. The original line translates literally to: You like the inquisition a lot.)

then,

Interrogator: No habla, puerco. (Could be, "No hables, puerco" which translates as: Don't speak, pig. OR "No hablo puerco", which would translate as: I don't speak pig.

Both "Silencio, por comenzar!" and "Yo pregunto las cuestiones!" are understanable in Spanish, but again, not proper Spanish grammar. The first would be "Silencio, para poder comenzar" (Silence, so we can begin) and the latter "Yo hago las preguntas!" (I ask the questions)

Later, the whole insult bit would go as

Un Bastardo Hijo di perra

Or rather, "Un bastardo hijo de perra"

And:

Tus Testiculos sobre un fuego grande Guadaña.

(::put:: your testicles over a large fire....:::cut off::: with a scythe.)

In all, is sounds as if the dialogue was translated into Spanish, but kept mostly the Enlgish grammar, and threw in a couple of Italian words to the mix. Just adds to the fun of it, though.

Ade 5th July 2006

Cleanup tag
I've added the cleanup tag because the dialogue sections need to be separated with half-width dividers. Also, it does appear that some of the episodes have a bit too many quotes and require trimming (this is not the case with every episode, but there are some). ~ UDScott 15:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Greyed and I have just fixed the half-width divider problem, and I've done some additional fixing of minor formatting issues. But the too-many-quotes problem remains, so I've left the cleanup tag in place and added a checkcopyright flag.

 * The trimming issue here is the same as it is for all TV-show articles. People treat these articles as places for fans to collect scene transcriptions, plot revelations, and generally anything of interest. We are looking for the 3-5 best quotes per episode (maximum each, not on average, and with no minimum!). Furthermore, all quotes should be something that is witty or otherwise memorable on its own; i.e., not requiring long descriptions of what's happening in the scene, and readily understandable by someone who has never seen the show. Anything that is too visually-oriented, any spoken dialog whose humor comes from the sound of the voices or other aural effects, any material that is mostly descriptions of what's happening on the television screen instead of actual quoted lines — these are all of little value to Wikiquote, even if they are the only quotes in the episode.

 * I'll make a special note of two more common problems. First, context lines (which introduce the scene mostly for context and to provide a video equivalent of page numbers for sourcing) should be kept short and should be composed of complete sentences. (That means a subject and a verb, folks. ☺ ) They should be used very, very sparingly, preferably not more than one per dialog segment, at the beginning of the segment. If the quote requires more, it may be a bad candidate for inclusion here. This article is currently littered with excessive context info, which means many of these quotes are not the best quotable lines from the show and should be deleted.

 * Second, stage directions (descriptions of how an actor is speaking or appearing, placed inside the quote itself — e.g. "[shouts] To the death!") are almost always unnecessary. The words, not the grimaces or volume, are what make for a good quote. (There are many hilarious and/or powerful scenes that do require knowing these directions, but that doesn't necessarily place them among the 3-5 best quotes of a work.) In general, if you can't understand the quote without stage directions, it's probably not a good fit for Wikiquote. In the rare cases that these directions are needed for the very best (and best-known) quotes, they should be incredibly brief — preferably 1-2 words — and should not be sentences. The idea is that each bit of material inside or surrounding a quoted line that isn't part of the quote itself detracts from the purpose of Wikiquote — providing excellent quotes.

 * To summarize, Wikiquote's goal is not to be the #1 web site for Blackadder quotes, let alone screenplay transcriptions. Wikiquote collects a select set of the very best quotes from all notable sources, and leaves the archiving to other websites. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright
Not to sound picky or anything, but should the copyright tag by about UK copyright law as opposed to US copyright law? Blackadder is a British show, therefore under "UK Legislation" or whatever it is. Dvp7 09:47, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

title: Talk:Blackadder


text:
Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress and film producer. She received an Academy Award as best actress for her portrayal of Aileen Wuornos in the film  Monster.

Quotes

 * I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. … There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want. And that meant "Be responsible with this little motorcycle that we're going to give you, because you're only five. If you're not, you're going to hurt yourself" -- which I did. My mom wasn't like, "Poor baby." She was like, "You do wheelies. That's what's going to happen." My mom's philosophy was, "If you get yourself in trouble, you've got to get yourself out of trouble."
 * Reader's Digest.com interview

 * I grew up on a farm in South Africa, so I’ve always been surrounded by animals. I was raised by a mother who always had great compassion and respect toward animals. It was instilled in me. I grew up that way. So when I see dogs or other animals suffer, it’s just been something close to my heart.
 * "Charlize Theron Would Never Wear Her Dog", in peta2.com (18 July 2011)
 * Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
 * “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”
 * The greatest gift we can give ourselves is to accept and love who we are, with all of our imperfections.
 * I think the most important thing for any human being is to know yourself and your own potential, and to be able to pursue your dreams and goals with passion and determination.
 * I don’t think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
 * I don’t think we should ever stop learning and growing as human beings. There’s always more to discover about ourselves and the world around us.
 * “I don’t try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don’t really like sympathy; I don’t like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you’re kind of trying to victimize someone.”
 * I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.
 * I don’t believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
 * “I’ve always been very proud to be a South African and I’ve always been very honest to people about that. And whatever I can do in my power, I promise you, I will do. I don’t think it’s too much pressure. I think it’s our duty as citizens of this country. You don’t have to win an Oscar to do something good for your country. We all can do that. If I can be an encouragement for that I’ll be glad to be that.”
 * I think it’s important to be your own advocate and to stand up for what you believe in, even if it means going against the status quo.
 * I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.
 * When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.
 * “We are raising a generation of young girls who realize that there is absolutely no shame in that game to be in relationship with yourself— to not fall into what society kind of predicts for us as what is socially acceptable: If you are not in a relationship, somehow you’re a failure.”

title: Charlize Theron