Gaea

"Think one thing.  Say another.  Do all, one, or neither." - Shoju Bayushi II

"I do not fear a man who hates me openly, for that is all he is capable of doing. If he were capable of causing me harm in any other way, he would do it. No, a man who is hostile to me in the court is of no concern to me. He is weak and his words are easily ignored." 
- Bayushi Tangen

Men among men.
Love among love.
Sin among sin.

"The truth is as powerful as lies.  The truth can hurt, can be nice, but above all else, must be accepted." - Shoju Bayushi II

"I'm only watching a dream that I never awakened from." - Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop

"If girls were always easy, than I'd always be hard." - Platinum Master, GameFAQs

             "Another one go caught today, it's all over the papers. 'Teenager arrested in Computer Crime Scandal,' 'Hacker arrested after Bank Tampering'...

Damn kids. They're all alike.

               But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the yes of the hacker?  did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world...

                 Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

                 I'm in junior high or high school.  I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction.  I understand it. 'No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work.  I did it in my head...'

Damn kid.  Probably copied it.  They're all alike.

                 I made a discovery today.  I found a computer.  Wait a second, this is cool.  It does what I want it to.  If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up.  Not because it doesn't like me...

Or feels threatened by me...

Or thinks I'm a smart ass...

Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...

Damn kid.  All he does is play games.  They're all alike.

                   And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found.

'This is it... this is where I belong...'

                    I know everyone here. even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

Damn kid.  Tying up the phone line again.  They're all alike...

                    You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless.  We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic.  The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

                    This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.  We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.  We explore... and you call us criminals.  We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals.  We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.  You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

                    Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of curiosity.  My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.  My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for." - The Mentor, January 8, 1986

"Listening to only opinions makes you a jackass.  Listening to only facts makes you a jackass.  Listening to opinions and facts makes you less of a jackass.  Finding things out for yourself makes you wise." - Shoju Bayushi II

"Gather information and make your own decisions for yourself, and never try to change someone else's mind who thinks differently from yourself.  If you do, someone like me will kick your ass one day." - Shoju Bayushi II

"If a person tells you something and you follow his orders without thinking, you are a dumbass.  (Unless it was an order by your commanding officer.)  If you don't fall into that category, then you are a dumbass.  With that I must ask you a question, 'Where is your bib baby?'" - Shoju Bayushi II

"I'm alone. I don't want comrades and it's not worth having any. I end up worrying about things I don't have to, you know, cause I'm such a good woman. All the guys end up fighting for me. They often say that humans can't live alone. But you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude." - Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop

"The Los Angeles Times states 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional...Good cause that means when Armageddon happens, 37% of this population is going to lose their minds!  *imitates cries for help* OH MY GOD, THE WORLD IS OVER! *end imitation* Us 63%, we're gonna go, "Hey! There's nobody watching the Lexus dealership." - Titus

"The Los Angeles Times states 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional...That means we're the majority. We're normal.  It's the people who have the mom, dad, brother, sister, little white, picket fence...Those people are the freaks.  Normal people terrify me because they haven't had enough problems in their life to know how to handle problems when they come up.  Something little happens *snaps fingers* they just snap." - Titus

"Colony no heiwa no tame dattara, yorokonde shinigami ni naru ze!"
("For the peace of the colonies, I will gladly become the God of Death!" --Duo Maxwell)