Technology quotes

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

“- Milo Hoffman: Doesn't Bill Gates have something like that?
- Gary Winston: Bill Who?”
Ryan Phillippe - Milo Hoffman
Tim Robbins - Gary Winston

You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean... (continue)(continue reading)
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- F. Ross Johnson: We put enough technology in this project to send a cigarette to the moon and we come up with one that tastes like it took a dump?
- Edward A. Horrigan Jr.: We haven't even talked about the smell.
- F. Ross Johnson: Oh what did they say that was like? A fart?
- Edward A. Horrigan Jr.: Yep.”

James Garner - F. Ross Johnson
Matt Clark - Edward A. Horrigan Jr.

If you have GPS, be very careful. I bought a Mercedes recently with talking GPS. I opened the door and my car went, "Are you Jewish?".
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“I wouldn't put on an electric blanket on for anything. First, I'd be worried I might get electrocuted. No, I don't trust technology. But I mean, the main thing, Wally, is that I think that kind of comfort just separates you from reality in a very direct way.”
Himself - Andre Gregory

“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

“I don't believe that any system is totally secure.”
Matthew Broderick - David

“My name is J.P., I am a robot, I like robots, I have a robot vagina.”

Nick Swardson - Jeff

“- Ens. Keith Larson, Chief Torpedoman: A typewriter?
- Lt. Hirsch: An Enigma code machine. It allows the German navy to communicate with it's submarines in secret, and our inability to decipher their messages is costing us this war.”

Matthew Settle - Ens. Keith Larson
Jake Weber - Lt. Hirsch

“- Gadgetmobile: You know what makes me sick? A rookie who thinks he's good enough for Dr. B.
- Inspector Gadget: Not that it's any of your business, but what makes you think I was putting the moves on Dr. Bradford?
- Gadgetmobile: Hey, I got heat sensors, and I know what you were thinkin' when Dr. B. gave you that smile. Now, look here, come...” (continue)(continue reading)
D.L. Hughley - Gadgetmobile
Matthew Broderick - Inspector Gadget

“We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!”

Robert Houston - Maddox's Soldier

The key meeting took place on July the 3rd, 1958, when the Air Force brought the space visitor to the White House for an interview with President Eisenhower. And Ike said, "hey look, give us your technology, we'll give you all the cow lips you want.".
Dan Aykroyd - Mother

“The beauty of the Gatekeeper system is that we can get in and out of the FBI like it's the Public Library. It's a beautiful system.”
Jeremy Northam - Jack

“- Oscar Madison: There are faster ways of delivery now. FedEx, UPS, fax...
- Felix Ungar: Oh, you're gonna fax me my suitcase?”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“- Yves Massarde: This facility is a miracle of modern science. State of the art technology. Solar energy harness to destroy the world's contaminants. Not such a bad idea after all.
- Eva Rojas: It's a toxic waste dump.”
Lambert Wilson - Yves Massarde
Penelope Cruz - Eva Rojas

“Why look at the computer when you can look at the real thing?”
Arabella Field - Nancy

“What he did was great! He designed his computer so that it could learn from its own mistakes. So, they'd be better the next time they played. The system actually learned how to learn. It could teach itself!”
Matthew Broderick - David

“Any man who puts his life in the hands of a bunch of batteries is an idiot.”
Val Kilmer - Gallagher

“I'm calling from a pay phone because I can't get my piece of shit cell phone to work unless I stand on my head with my fingers up my ass!”
Sasha Alexander - Jackie Samantha Gold

“- Barbara Corvin: Would you like me to read the instructions to you again?
- Frank Corvin: Let me tell you something, my dear. Those instructions were written by a fellow in Japan when they made this damn thing. They were probably translated by some gringo who was an expatriate American that couldn't get a job in this country. And then the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Barbara Babcock - Barbara Corvin
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin

- Inspector Gadget: Why would you do this?
- Dr. Claw: I'll tell you why. To make techno-warriors that never get tired, never get hungry, and never say "no". Every army in the world would be made up of my creations. Imagine the confusion, Gadget, huh? Imagine the perks.
Matthew Broderick - Inspector Gadget
Rupert Everett - Sanford Scolex

- ROC: Voice interface.
- Elaine: There's an overheat in the core. Please analyze problem.
- ROC: There is no apparent overheat.
- Elaine: Yes, there is, ROC. We read a core overheat. Repeat analysis.
- ROC: Analysis confirmed. All systems compute positive.
- Elaine: Well, not from where I'm sitting, they don't!
- ROC: Look, Elaine. Cut the "not... (continue)(continue reading)
Ken Finkleman - ROC
Julie Hagerty - Elaine

“The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.”

Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“- Paul McDaggett: Stupid fools. Don't you know what you've done to us? Those androids are programmed with a thermal failsafe device.
- Dr. Marie Lazarus: They're made to self-destruct?
- Paul McDaggett: In fifteen seconds, everything within twenty yards of where we're standing will be atomised. We're dead, you stupid slag!
- Robocop: Don't...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Castle - Paul McDaggett
Jill Hennessy - Dr. Marie Lazarus
Robert John Burke - Robocop