Glados Portal Quotes & Sayings

All nature awakes to life and activity. — William Bartram

Hear from those who have gone before you. — Mike Dunlap

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city. — Rachel L. Schade

I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia. — Ted Kosmatka

The enrichment center would like to announce a new employee initiative of forced voluntary participation.

If any Aperture Science employee would like to opt out of this new voluntary testing program, please remember; science rhymes with compliance.

Do you know what doesn't rhyme with compliance?

Neurotoxin.

Due to high mortality rates, you may be reluctant to participate in the new initiative.

The enrichtment center assures you this is a strictly selfish impulse on your part, and why can't you love science like [insert co-worker's name here]? — Ted Kosmatka

This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do you? — J.K. Simmons

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years. — Edward Zander

Because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. — Louisa May Alcott

I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
-GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer — Valve

Speaking of boxes...

Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed.

Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is reality doesn't exist. The good news is we have a new cat graveyard. — Ted Kosmatka

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way. — Brooks Atkinson