“- The Cigarette Smoking Man: He's seen more than he should.
- Strughold: What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: He's determined now, reinvested.
- Strughold: He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.”

William B. Davis - The Cigarette-Smoking Man
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Strughold

“Everybody wants to know what's next.”
Owen Wilson - Dignan

“- Cynthia: God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future?
- Tony: Yeah I know, like it's all preparation.
- Cynthia: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?
- Mike: Death.”
Marissa Ribisi - Cynthia
Anthony Rapp - Tony
Adam Goldberg - Mike

“Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And fifteen minutesago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“The machine predicts a war and we go to war to avert it. It predicts a plague; we herd all the sick together, create a plague. Whatever future this predicts, we make it happen. We give over control of our lives completely. Seeing the future will destroy us.”

Ben Affleck - Jennings