Ellie Arroway: Occam's razor. You ever heard of it? Palmer Joss: Hack-em's Razor. Sounds like some slasher movie. — Contact (1997)
Dr. Weir: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful? Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor. — Event Horizon (1997)
Jack O'Neill: If we want to find out who's behind this, we have to do what the Asgard do. Daniel: You mean bluff? Jack O'Neill: Yep. We just need to do it without revealing what we know. Daniel: Which is nothing. Jack O'Neill: Right. But they don't know we know nothing. — Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Sol Robeson: The Ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe. — Pi (1998)
Ellie Arroway: [listening to the message] Those are primes! 2,3,5,7, those are all prime numbers and there's no way that's a natural phenomenon! — Contact (1997)
Maximillian Cohen: 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. — Pi (1998)
C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds. — Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
President: We didn't see this thing coming? Dan: Well, our object collison budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky. — Armageddon (1998)
The Operative: Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is. — Serenity (2005)
S.R. Hadden: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? — Contact (1997)
Harry Stamper: What's your contingency plan? Truman: Contingency plan? Harry Stamper: Your backup plan. You gotta have some kind of backup plan, right? Truman: No, we don't have a back up plan. This is it. Harry Stamper: And this is the best that you c - that the-the government, the *U.S. government* can come up with? I mean, you-you're NASA for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here, that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me? Truman: Yeah. — Armageddon (1998)
Albert Nimzicki: If we don't act now, we may not have much of an America left to defend. — Independence Day (1996)
