Halt and Catch Fire Quotes
Joe: Nobody knows better than me how impossible working with your father is. He's moody, impatient, ungrateful, and the know-it-all problem is legendary.
Haley: He's standing right there, isn't he? [laughs]
Joe: Would I be saying all this if he was standing right there?
Haley: Yeah. [laughs]
Joe: OK, then you answered your own question. Look, you're part of this place, and we need you.
Haley: Did my dad hear that?
Joe: Of course he did.
Joe: It has been a pleasure to fall asleep and wake up in your work space.
Cameron: Just another minute.
Joe: I know you think you mean that.
Bobby: Can I ask you a question? Community was so far ahead of its time. Why haven't you tried to recreate it?
Donna: Mutiny was the most fun I ever had. We didn't know what we were doing; it was one crisis after another. But it worked. The failure of that was, well, what's that saying? You grow stronger at the broken places. The truth is, I am trying to build a different version of Community, but this time it's the entire internet; it's everyone.
Kids are great if you can give birth to a 14-year-old.
Cameron
It's amazing, isn't it. One day Hayley's four and building a fort out of sofa cushions and the next she's telling Kids in the Hall jokes. It's just... It's so cool.
Joe
Hayley: Hi Vanessa. This is my boss, Joe McMillan.
Joe: Actually, co-founder.
Hayley: So. What were we talking about again?
Joe: On the internet you think you can be who you really are.
OK then. The next time I get in trouble, remember it's because I'm being brave.
Joanie
Joe: Yeah? Cause from where I stand, it seems like you don't care where thinks stand here as long as you get to keep screwing the Chief Ontologist!
Gordon: Why don't you get some air?
Donna: I mean, he solved every problem he's been wrestling with for months in one elegant update.
Boz: I guess the muse finally had something to say.
Donna: Don't you wonder what took him so long?
Boz: Don't you think we're being overly cautious here?
Donna: I think I'm being the exact right amount of cautious.
Gordon: Is this what you saw ten years ago because it's not what I saw for myself when you showed up in my garage.
Joe: That's the point. It was never about where it ended up. It was about how it felt. When I saw it, I knew how it would feel to build something with you. But this? Friday afternoon, all the cues are clear. I don't know what comes next.
Gordon: Most of us in the human race, we don't get to know what comes next. We just feel shit as it's thrown at us. This, right now, is all there is. Welcome to the future, Joe McMillan. I mean, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm sure glad to have you here.
