- Clive Sinclair: Games! Games! Everywhere I go, games! This is what my lifetime of achievement has been reduced to! Clive Sinclair, the man who brought you Jet Set fucking Willy! Apparently there's even a game now about me trying to get a knighthood, for Christ's sake!
- Clive Sinclair: I consider it very much my role to foresee the future. For example, I anticipate totally automatic personalised cars powered by electricity drawn from internal batteries or the mains. That's a very real goal.
- Clive Sinclair: Yes, well some of us didn't go to university, did we, Chris. We prefer the cut-and-thrust of the real world.
- Hermann Hauser: What is a pawn? A piece whose only function is to protect the king. To lay down his life, if necessary, as part of a greater plan. But the object of the game - this is to kill the king. Now are you a pawn, Chris, or a bigger piece on the board?
- Bank Manager: Ten thousand pounds, you say? What sort of business did you say it was?
- Chris Curry: Computers.
- Bank Manager: Oh, I say, how interesting. Very science fiction.
- Chris Curry: We could have been the British IBM, but you wouldn't listen to me when you should've - and now look at us.
- [after the Enterprise Board have withdrawn funding for his latest project, Clive Sinclair is ranting and raving, and swearing at anyone in range. An engineer leaves his office, clutching a circuit board, after being ordered to "Just get it working". Sinclair continues to rant]
- Chris Curry: [to the engineer] I'll have a word with him.
- [in the background, Clive Sinclair throws his telephone through his office window, scattering glass everywhere]
- Chris Curry: Ah. Maybe later...
- Clive Sinclair: Can't they see we exist to push barriers? We won't be constrained like this. What's that line from Browning...? 'A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?'
- Clive Sinclair: Perhaps we should remind ourselves of the secret of the Sinclair success. That is, being first to market. Letting people know what they want, before even they know about it.
- Clive Sinclair: But is the personal computer not a desirable notion? Something every citizen would quietly crave if he actually knew what it was?
- Clive Sinclair: But we adapt, Chris. We move on. Businesses come, businesses go. This was but one step on a greater journey. And you know - ultimately - The path of the future will always be laid by the amateur. The quiet chap - scuttling off to his shed to work on that idea that he and he alone knows will change the world.