Цитата из книги «Алмазный век» Нил Стивенсон

"Let's go stay with your buds!" Nell said. Harv had never introduced Nell to any of his buds before, she knew them only as children of earlier epochs knew Gilgamesh, Roland, or Superman.
She was under the impression that the streets of the Leased Territories were rife with Harv's buds and that they were more or less all-powerful.