- George Millican: I live in that solitude that is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- George Millican: [adds after a pause] Einstein
- Lindsay Kiwanuka: That's unfortunate. But I have good news. You qualify for an upgrade. One of these bad boys can do 10 times what the D-series can do. She can fine-tune your medication, develop exercise plans to lower your risk. Take your blood pressure with a finger.
- [Synth Vera takes that as a command and tries to touch George with her finger to take blood pressure]
- Lindsay Kiwanuka: Not now, Vera!
- George Millican: Does she check your prostate too?
- Joe Hawkins: I know. That's why I want the synth. To give us time. I didn't buy Anita to replace you. I bought her to get you back.
- Hobb: Do you know what the singularity is? A mathematician named John Von Neumann coined the term in the 1950s to describe the inevitable point in the future when technology surpasses us, when it becomes able to improve and reproduce itself without our help. It is the moment when we become inferior to the machine. Now, our world is... is on the verge of becoming dependent on synth labor. Now, these synths are physically no different to any others, and yet... Elster gave them consciousness. If it can be done for the few, it can be done for them all. And then what? Do you think they would still want to be slaves? These freaks are the singularity.