- Lucas Wolenczak: Are you nuts? We're affecting millions of lives. Real people's lives. This isn't some game on the InterNex where you see every consequence in neat 3-D graphics.
- Martin Clemens: I'm destroying war, corruption. I'm ripping the heart out of greed!
- [as they both battle to hack into and out of the world bank]
- Lucas Wolenczak: You can't do that by changing numbers. These things won't go away until we know each other one by one, face to face. You said it yourself, Clemens: it hurts in here. This is where you have to make it better.
- [indicating the heart]
- Julianna: It is right. Control of the world bank will let us stop a country from going to war. Imagine how many people we'll be able to help.
- Lucas Wolenczak: Don't you think we ought to ask first? And what happens if we screw up?
- Mark 'Wolfman': If we're smart enough and we're careful enough, it'll work. No one will even know.
- Lucas Wolenczak: But what if we're not, Nick? The entire transaction network will collapse, money will stop moving. A company will go bankrupt; ah, a whole army won't get paid, a government will be over thrown. I can't even guess how many people we might hurt.