The Lawnmower Man Quotes

  • Jobe Smith: You realize, Dr. Angelo, that my intelligence has surpassed yours...

  • Jobe Smith: ...my birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.

  • Jobe Smith: By the year 2001, there won't be a person on this planet who isn't hooked into it, and hooked into me.

  • Jobe Smith: This universe is mine. I am GOD here!

  • Caroline Angelo: Falling, floating, and flying? So, what's next, fucking?

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: ...so I'm taking my work underground. I can't let it fall into the wrong hands again.

  • Jobe Smith: I sense your thoughts. What are you HIDING?

  • Jobe Smith: I saw God! I touched God!

  • Patrolman Cooley: Two bizarre murders in one night.

    [Shortly thereafter he sees Jobe staring at him]

    Patrolman Cooley: Two bizarre accidents in one night.

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: Jobe, listen to yourself right now. The first sign of psychosis is a Christ complex.

    Jobe Smith: CyberChrist.

  • Jobe Smith: Ah, there he is. The "good" Father McKeen. Took in the poor idiot nobody wanted.

    Father Francis McKeen: The devil has gotten inside you, Jobe. I can see it. It's that Dr. Angelo. He's corrupted you.

    Jobe Smith: JUDGEMENT DAY IS HERE!

  • Jobe Smith: Mind over matter Dr. Angelo, not a miracle - a fact.

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: All this power isn't meant to be in the hands of one person!

    Jobe Smith: You're wrong! You need to be led, just like everyone else, it's a basic need.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This technology was meant to expand human communication, but you're not even human any more! What you've become terrifies me. You're a freak!

    Jobe Smith: Your naive idiocy makes me VERY ANGRY!

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This is all so new.

    Jobe Smith: It's not new. I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain - we've just been awakening the most ancient. This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used centuries ago. The human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're moving too fast. Even with all these new abilities, there are dangers. Man may be able to evolve a thousand-fold through this technology, but the rush must be tempered with wisdom.

  • Jobe Smith: This technology has peeled back a layer to reveal another universe. Virtual reality will grow, just as the telegraph grew to the telephone - as the radio to the TV - it will be everywhere.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're having delusions, Jobe. Struggle for reason!

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: He

    [Jobe]

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: absorbed Latin yesterday in less than two hours. It took me a year just to learn the Latin alphabet.

  • Jobe Smith: I'm sorry you hate... what you have created.

  • Jobe Smith: I'm giving you one final game to play, i find a way out or i will die in this diseased mainframe

  • Jobe Smith: [after he possesses Jake's mind] Lawnmower Man is in your head now, Jake. There is no escape, ever.

Extended Reading
  • Harley 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Impressed when I was young

  • Vince 2022-03-20 09:02:16

    Why can't Jobb control the bomb in the end, but can open the door for Peter?