Quotes with lore.

A pop-culture megastore of lines from film, TV, video games, books, comics and anime, with the lore behind every one. Five floors. Take the lift.

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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

— Misattributed to Thomas J. Watson

Floor G: Film & TV

Staff pick

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it; well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

— Captain, Road Prison 36, Cool Hand Luke

Floor 1: Video Games

Press start

Toasty!

— Dan Forden, Mortal Kombat II

Floor 2: Books

Shelf pick

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

— Stephen King, The Gunslinger

Floor 3: Comics & Anime

Fresh off the press

Security is a thumb and a blanket.

— Linus van Pelt, Peanuts

Floor 4: Signings

From the signings board

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

— Steve Jobs

Behind the ground floor's bead curtain: The Back Room

Opens after midnight. Cult and horror, after dark. Until then, browse the horror shelf.

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Listening booth: Moods

Tell Moods how today is going and it finds you a line from film, TV or games.

Aisles: genres

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Lines we say back

A few words, and you're back in the scene. Familiar lines from films we keep coming back to.

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When certainty slips

Six lines about the moment things stop making sense — and what we do next.

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Playing to the room

A name, a motto, a rallying cry. Six ways a few words can change the room.

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