History Quotes / VirtualGhost

'''Lister:''' ...[[TheDitz What's an iguana?]] And look, you're not dead, are ya? I mean, you're dead! But you're not ''dead'' dead, because you're still here, aren't you?\\
'''Rimmer:''' Lister, I'm not really here! I'm not really ''me!'' Don't you see? I'm a computer simulation of me. That's me, there - [[NoBodyLeftBehind that pile of albino mouse droppings]].
-->--''Series/RedDwarf''

->Given a dark enough environment, this projector, this wonder of modern science, allows me to appear before you today! No more shall [[MadDoctor my]] [[PsychoPsychologist talents]] be confined to the time at which I display them, but instead I am able to perform again and again, to live on through the ages! And with [[JekyllAndHyde a case]] as challenging as yours, I need all the time I can get...
-->--'''Dr Killjoy,''' ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''

->The thing was, Saunders was an engineer, not a philosopher - and the way he saw it, you were either dead or you were alive. And if you were dead, you shouldn't be forced to fill in [[VastBureaucracy endless incomprehensible forms and other related nonsensica]]. You shouldn't have to return your birth certificate, to have it invalidated. You shouldn't have to send off your completed death certificate, accompanied by a passport-sized photograph of your corpse, signed on the back by your coroner. When you're dead, you should be dead. [[UnwantedRevival The bastards should leave you alone]].
->If Saunders could have picked something up, he would have picked something up and hurled it across the grey metal room. But he couldn't. Saunders was a hologram. He was just a computer-generated simulation of his former self; he couldn't actually ''touch'' anything, except for his own hologramatic body. He was a phantom made of light. A software ghost.
-->--''Literature/RedDwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers''

-->--'''Dr Killjoy,''' ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''