'What is it like to look at yourself in the mirror every day, Francis?'

'Oh, don't give me that again. It doesn't work on me. I'm not thirty years old anymore. Every successful person in this town is just as ruthless as I am. And in five more years you probably will be too. You've done a good job, a bang-up job. And now I'm giving your code a chance to live. If it weren't for me and it weren't for me bringing in Lloyd, you would suffer a far worse humiliation than what's going on here. You'd have built a superior product that got no more attention than some undergraduate's senior thesis. I'm going to take your work and make it famous, and I'm going to give it a chance, and for that you should be goddamned thankful.'

'Don't expect to get a Hallmark anytime soon.'

'Getting screwed is part of the ritual, Andy. At least I'm not going to dumb down your technology. I'm going to make it better. I promise you that. When J was screwed, I designed a Falcon chip that was saddled with sixteen-bit software that made my chip design look slow. Wall Street analysts who used to look up to me stopped doing so - from their point of view I had delivered a chip that was faster, but not exponentially faster. They didn't care it was the software holding it back. I promise you that nobody will ever think of you that way. I promise you I will serve your work with respect, and if you can't recognize the importance of that, engineer to engineer, then you're not the man I thought you were.'