Gargoyle Elder: Must you humans name everything? Nothing's real to you 'til you've named it, given it limits. Elisa: It's not like that. It's just that, well... uh... things need names.
Gargoyle Elder: Does the sky need a name? Does the river?
Shepard: So what should I call you? Legion: Geth. Shepard: No, I mean you. Specifically. Legion: We are all geth. Shepard: What is the individual in front of me called? Legion: There is no individual. We are geth. There are currently 1,183 programs active within this platform.
EDI: "My name is Legion, for we are many."
Legion: Christian Bible, the Gospel of Mark, chapter five, verse nine. We acknowledge this as an appropriate metaphor.