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P: This sounds familiar.

M: Yeah... they did it in Superman III.

P: Right.

M: What a good movie, actually. And then a bunch of hackers did it in the 70s as well and one of 'em got busted.

P: Well, so they check for this now.

M: No, here's the thing. Initech's so backed up with all the software we're updating for the year 2000, they'd never notice.

P: You're right. And even if they wanted to, they couldn't check all that code.

M: Thumbs up their asses. Thumbs up their asses.

P: So, Michael, what's to stop you from doing this?

M: It's not worth the risk, I got a good job.

P: What if you *didn't* have a good job?

Edit: All of the publicly available scripts and quotes were wrong. Checked the original source. ;@]



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