Progress quotes

“If people are going to start thinking anyway... Killing all the salmon just so you can run your fucking iPod every second of your life. And that's what's gonna happen. People are gonna start thinking. They have to.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Josh

“- Young Frank Walker: Who are you?
- Athena: I'm the future, Frank Walker.”
Thomas Robinson - Young Frank Walker
Raffey Cassidy - Athena

“You were never backward about being forward.”
David O'Hara - Sean Kelly

“- John Connor: The T-X, can you find a way to destroy it?
- Terminator: Unlikely. I'm an obsolete design.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

“We know they're extremely advanced technologically, which suggests - very rightfully so - that they're peaceful. An advanced civilization, by definition, is not barbaric.”

Pierce Brosnan - Professor Donald Kessler

“- Holly McClane: Honey, it's the '90s, remember? Microchips, microwaves, faxes, air phones.
- John McClane: Hey, well, as far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.”
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“- Anna Leonowens: I would like to know why, if science can unravel something as beautiful as music... why it cannot posit a solution for a schoolteacher and a king.
- King Mongkut: The manner in which people might understand such new possibilities is also process of evolution.
- Anna Leonowens: Everything in Siam has its own time.”

Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web... at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss

“Even now, after twenty-five years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie and the suggestions we have found in his notes, and his thoughts he expressed to me have helped to guide us to them. But no one of us can do much. Yet, each of us, perhaps, can catch some gleam of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Greer Garson - Marie Curie

“This is the future, Pavel. Cars that never need refueling. Free power for every family. Maybe even travel to the planets.”

Peter Sarsgaard - Lt. Vadim Radtchinko

“- John Connor: This other guy's a Terminator like you, right?
- The Terminator: Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype.
- John Connor: You mean more advanced than you are?
- The Terminator: Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
- John Connor: What the hell does that mean?
- The Terminator: Liquid metal.”
Edward Furlong - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator

“The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Larry Dolgin - PABS Reporter

“- Martin Rittenhome: Television is gonna go on. The quiz shows are gonna go on. Makes me wonder what you hope to accomplish with all this.
- Dick Goodwin: Don't worry, I'm just getting started.
- Martin Rittenhome: You're a bright young kid with a bright future. Watch yourself out there.”
Martin Scorsese - Martin Rittenhome
Rob Morrow - Dick Goodwin

“- James Reece: Isn't it part of French tradition that the woman cooks while the guy watches TV?
- Caroline: Well, things have changed since the Middle Ages, you know. Now it's exactly the contrary.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - James Reece
Kasia Smutniak - Caroline

“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 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Felicity Shagwell: Austin, tell me about the future.
- Austin: Well, everyone has their own flying car, entire meals come in pill form, and the Earth is run by damn dirty apes.
- Felicity Shagwell: Oh my God!”
Heather Graham - Felicity Shagwell
Mike Myers - Austin Powers

“- Billy Brennan: You like computers, right?
- Dr. Grant: I like the abacus, Billy.”
Alessandro Nivola - Billy Brennan
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“You know, this is the 80s, Mr. Miyagi. You can't be so damn passive!”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso

“- Dr. Walter Gibbs: You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
- Alan Bradley: Some programs will be thinking soon.
- Dr. Walter Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.”
Barnard Hughes - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Bruce Boxleitner - Alan Bradley

“Bob Roberts is Nixon, only he's shrewder, more complicated, this Bob Roberts. Now here is a man who has adopted the persona and mindset of a free-thinking rebel and turned it on itself. The Rebel Conservative! That is deviant brilliance. What a Machiavellian poser.”
Lynne Thigpen - Kelly Noble

“War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?”

Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“Bob Roberts is yet another of that faction that lives to destroy whatever good came out of the 60s, to rewrite the history of that important period. A period where the American people actually were informed and aware, and realized that they had a voice. They demanded that a war end.”
Lynne Thigpen - Kelly Noble

“At the far reaches of the Universe lies a planet of men who have advanced technologically beyond the realm of human comprehension. This is no breeding - they are a product of cloning, and their reproductive organs have shrunk and disappeared. All emotions have been bred out of this race and each succeeding generation has become more ambitious...” (continue)(continue reading)

“If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress too?”
Anne Bancroft - Lillian DeHaven

“I've been in consultation with our Director and we've decided that what has been needed in this bank for a long time is a special officer. Or, to refer to the article of the underworld, a bank dick. In lieu of your heroism, your valiant, dauntless courage, I have the honor to offer you this position.”

Pierre Watkin - Mr. Skinner