Case Quotes

“I like it, you know? Like I’ve always talked to myself, in my head, when I’ve been in tight spots. Pretend I got some friend, somebody I can trust, and I’ll tell ‘em what I really think, what I feel like, and then I’ll pretend they’re telling me what they think about that, and I’ll just go along that way. Having you in is kinda like that.”

“The ... smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat is willing to let ‘em get.”

“Operators above a certain level tended to submerge their personalities, he knew. ”

“Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. ”

“He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacking into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.”