Quotes / Inside a Computer System

"The interior of a computer is a fine and private place, but none, I fear, do there embrace."

—Roger Ebert, paraphrasing Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"

Kevin Flynn: It's time I leveled with you. I'm what you guys call a User.
Yori: You're a User?
Kevin Flynn: I took a wrong turn somewhere.

—TRON

"In there is our destiny!"

—Kevin Flynn, TRON: Legacy

"It's an entire universe in there, one we created, but it's beyond us now. Really. It's outgrown us. You know, every time you shut off your computer...do you know what you're doing? Have you ever reformatted a hard drive...destroyed an entire universe? It's too much. It's too much power. I never wanted this. I never wanted the responsibility. I just wanted to make games."

— Jethro "Jet" Bradley, Tron: Ghost in the Machine, having the exact opposite reaction as his Honorary Uncle

"Welcome to the real world," she said to me, condescendingly... I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie we've got to rise above.

— John Meyer, No Such Thing

Colin: Welcome to my digital home/Everything made out of numbers and code
Yellow Guy: Huh?
Duck Guy: Wow! We're all computery!
Red Guy: Oh, yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. This is a computer.

— Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

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