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Halt and Catch Fire 3×9

& Bosworth: Donna Emerson, senior partner. My God, that does have a ring to it, doesn’t it?

& Bosworth: Hey, now, that’s the good stuff. Remember, respect the dirty bird or fear the kickin’ chicken.
    Donna: «Kickin’ chicken»?

& — Gordon Clark, this here is...
    Donna: Donna. Donna Emerson.
    Gordon: Nice to meet you.

& Gordon: So, what now? Just casual sex and cosmos?
    Donna: Casual sex and martinis. Oh, but «casual» makes it sound boring, lazy. I’d rather go with «hot and dirty» sex.

& Gordon: So, congratulations, it’s official. Donna Emerson. You really couldn’t stand being a Clark, could you?
    Donna: Emerson has three syllables. It’s got stature, you know? Plus, it takes up more space on the sign, so.

& Donna: Gordo?
    Gordon: Ms. Emerson.

& Cameron: .... That means, «I don’t want the shrimp with the heads on.» It’s a very useful phrase in Tokyo.

& Joe: ...like a... like a switch... flicked in your brain?
    Cameron: Yeah. It’s just, you go through life and you have this idea of who you are, and what you do, and then... you discover it’s total bullshit. It’s a defense mechanism, and once you stop defending yourself you can be all these other things, and that...

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& Cameron: Well, you can skip all the laptops. They’re just variations on a theme. Uh... the Microsoft booth is «ugh.» Gates’ speech is overrated. Just get the transcript. Oh, Phillips just released a recordable CD and Adobe added some cool stuff to this thing called Photoshop...

& Gordon: Oh, it uh, it says «kiss the cook» but in binary code.

& Joanie: Well, «shonen» is Japanese for «boy.» So, it means «boy knife.» «Boy knife» means «dick.»

& Cameron: I wonder how high you’d have to be up for your spit to actually kill someone.

& Joe: Okay. What is it that I do?
    Cameron: It’s so hard... to bring about actual change. Real change. The whole world conspires to stop that from happening. But you bring people together. You... create change. I think that that’s... really great.

& Gordon: Do you know why most people screw up their pasta? Not salting the water enough. You know, it should taste like the ocean. You know, when properly portioned, salt will not make food taste salty, but instead will enhance the flavors that are already present.

& Joanie: Did you know that almost all beef you buy at the supermarket tests positive for E. coli?.. Because cows, when they’re slaughtered, are decapitated. And when you decapitate a cow, all the stuff in the intestines and the stomach flies out through the neck hole, all over the body. And E. coli is found only in excrement. Basically... there’s shit in your Bolognese.
    Gordon: .... Well, did you know there’s a detectable level of cow piss in most milk?

& Joe: Hey, I think I figured it out.
    Cameron: You can’t beat me. It’s... It’s a system. You have to count in Nim sums. It’s just a trick.

& Joanie: I can’t totally commit to a label. People aren’t one thing.

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