Tron (1982) quotes
Director
Steven Lisberger.
Cast
Jeff Bridges.
Bruce Boxleitner.
David Warner.
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
– Alan Bradley
Yep, but you gotta purchase your program 30 days in advance. How’s it going upstairs?
– Lora
Frustrating. I had Tron almost ready, when Dillinger cut everyone with Group-7 access out of the system. I tell you ever since he got that Master Control Program, the system’s got more bugs than a bait store.
– Alan Bradley
You’ve got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can’t think.
– Dr. Walter Gibbs
Some programs will be thinking soon.
– Alan Bradley
Won’t that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.
– Dr. Walter Gibbs
End of line.
– Master Control Program
You invented Space Paranoids?
– Alan Bradley
Paranoids, Matrix Blaster, Vice Squad, a whole slew of them. I was this close to starting my own little enterprise, man. But enter another software engineer. Not so young, not so bright, but very very sneaky. Ed Dillinger. So one night, our boy Flynn, he goes to his terminal, tries to read up his file. I get nothing on there, it’s a big blank. Okay, now we take you three months later. Dillinger presents ENCOM with five video games, that’s *he’s* invented. The slime didn’t even change the names, man! He gets a big, fat promotion. And thus begins his meteoric rise to… what is he now, Executive V.P.?
– Kevin Flynn
Senior exec.
– Lora
*Senior* exec…?
– Kevin Flynn
Meanwhile, the kids are putting eight million quarters *a week* into Paranoids machines. I don’t see a dime except what I squeeze out of here.
– Kevin Flynn
I still don’t understand why you want to break into the system.
– Alan Bradley
*Because*, man, *somewhere* in one of these memories is the *evidence*! If I got in far enough, I could reconstruct it!
– Kevin Flynn
Hello, Mr. Dillinger. Thanks for coming back early.
– Master Control Program
No problem, Master C. If you’ve seen one consumer electronics show, you’ve seen them all.
– Ed Dillinger
That MCP, that’s half our problem right there.
– Dr. Walter Gibbs
The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do! I can’t sit here and worry about every little user request that comes in!
– Ed Dillinger
User requests are what computers are for!
– Dr. Walter Gibbs
*Doing our business* is what computers are for.
– Ed Dillinger
There’s nothing special about you. You’re just an ordinary program.
– Sark
So are you, one that should have been erased.
– Kevin Flynn
Like the man says, there’s no problems, only solutions.
– Kevin Flynn
You’ve enjoyed all the power you’ve been given, haven’t you? I wonder how you’d take to working in a pocket calculator.
– Master Control Program
What good will that do?
– Yori
I’m gonna jump! It’s the only way to help Tron!
– Kevin Flynn
Don’t! You’ll be de-rezzed!
– Yori
Don’t worry.
– Kevin Flynn
This is the key to a new order. This code disk means freedom.
– Tron
We made it!… this far.
– Tron
You’re getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic.
– Master Control Program
Thank you, Master Control.
– Sark
On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.
– Kevin Flynn
Now for some real User power.
– Kevin Flynn
Who’s that guy?
– Kevin Flynn
That’s Tron. He fights for the Users.
– Warrior #1
Come on, you scuzzy data, be in there. Come on.
– Kevin Flynn
All that is visible must grow beyond itself, and extend into the realm of the invisible.
– Dumont
The new guy was asking about you.
– Ram
It’s too bad he’s in a match now. I’ll probably never meet him.
– Tron
You might. There’s something different about him.
– Ram
You really think the Users are still there?
– Ram
They better be. I don’t wanna bust out of here and find nothing but a lot of cold circuits waiting for me.
– Tron
Hey Ram, what were you, you know, before?
– Kevin Flynn
I was an actuarial program. Worked for a big insurance company. It really gives you a great feeling helping folks plan for their future needs. Of course, if you take the payments as an annuity over the years, the cost is really quite minimal.
– Ram