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brink"Does that tie keep you warm? No. No. It's just what grown up men do in our culture. They put a piece of cloth around their necks so they can assert their status, and recognise each other as non-threatening kindred. You wear the tie because it never occurred to you not to. You eat eggs every morning but never at night. You feel excitement and companionship when rich men you've never met put a ball through a net. You feel guilty, maybe a little suspicious, every time you see that salvation army Santa. You look down for at least half a second if a woman leans forward. And your stomach rumbles every time you drive by a big golden arch, even if you weren't hungry before. Everybody's programmed, Boyd."
"Relax, mountain man. I've been reading the squigglies long enough to 'cern the diff between excitement and 'Sweet mother, I'm gonna die!'"
Claire: And what about Boyd?
Topher: 'Boyd'? What are you guys buddies now? Oh, God, of course you are. You both disapprove of everything. You're gonna get married and have scowly babies.
Claire: It's possible one good sneeze could bring on a seizure.
Topher: Or even worse, a sneezure.
Topher: This isn't a book club, man friend. This is the herd.
Boyd: They're not bison, Topher.
Topher: ...They're a little bit bison.
"In a world where all men are guilty until proven dead, one man stands as our only hope in the fight against..."
"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
"I don't want to use the word "genius", but I'd be okay if you wanted to."
Claire: Why shouldn't I love you? Aren't you lovable? Aren't you big brother? Aren't you the lord my god? Why should I fight your divine plan?
Topher: Because you're better than that! Because you're better than me!
"I know a conspiracy when I desperately try to avoid seeing one."
"Welcome... to the future! Where cars fly, robots serve our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the earth!"
"I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like. And Blockbuster."
"You have a remarkable brain, I think it should stay in your head. Ivy... Don't become me."
Topher: I'm the one who brings about the thought-pocalypse...
Adelle: Thought-pocalypse?
Topher: Is brain-pocalypse better? I figure, if I'm responsible for the end of the world, I get to name it.
"If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?"
"Relax, mountain man. I've been reading the squigglies long enough to 'cern the diff between excitement and 'Sweet mother, I'm gonna die!'"
Claire: And what about Boyd?
Topher: 'Boyd'? What are you guys buddies now? Oh, God, of course you are. You both disapprove of everything. You're gonna get married and have scowly babies.
Claire: It's possible one good sneeze could bring on a seizure.
Topher: Or even worse, a sneezure.
Topher: This isn't a book club, man friend. This is the herd.
Boyd: They're not bison, Topher.
Topher: ...They're a little bit bison.
"In a world where all men are guilty until proven dead, one man stands as our only hope in the fight against..."
"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."
"I don't want to use the word "genius", but I'd be okay if you wanted to."
Claire: Why shouldn't I love you? Aren't you lovable? Aren't you big brother? Aren't you the lord my god? Why should I fight your divine plan?
Topher: Because you're better than that! Because you're better than me!
"I know a conspiracy when I desperately try to avoid seeing one."
"Welcome... to the future! Where cars fly, robots serve our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the earth!"
"I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like. And Blockbuster."
"You have a remarkable brain, I think it should stay in your head. Ivy... Don't become me."
Topher: I'm the one who brings about the thought-pocalypse...
Adelle: Thought-pocalypse?
Topher: Is brain-pocalypse better? I figure, if I'm responsible for the end of the world, I get to name it.
"If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?"
