"It was a performance. It was like the culmination
of a lifetime's observation of martial arts tapes,
cheap ones, the kind Case had grown up on. For a
few seconds, he knew, she was every bad-ass
hero, Sony Mao in the old Shaw videos, Mickey
Chiba, the whole lineage back to [Bruce] Lee and
[Clint] Eastwood. She was walking it the way she
talked it" —William Gibson, Neuromancer

“All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...” 
― William Gibson, Neuromancer