What do you want me to do, stupid, go outside and paint the ship black?
— Cliffy, Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
If your reactor can't hold a cloak while you shoot...build a ship with TWO REACTORS!
Joker: You know it's just our heat emissions that are hidden, right? They could look out a window and see us coming!
Legion: Windows are structural weaknesses. Geth do not use them.
Engage the Disappearo Mode!
"First rule of active camouflage: Park somewhere you'll remember."
— Jack, Doctor Who, "The Empty Child"
"His cloak is perfect. No tachyon emissions, no residual antiprotons."
— Geordi La Forge, Star Trek: Nemesis, regarding the cloaking device of the warbird Scimitar