Scientist: All right, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible.
Obadiah Stane: TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Scientist: Well... I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.
Obadiah Stane: TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Scientist: Well... I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.
— Iron Man
Tenth Doctor: [device dings] Ding.
Queen Elizabeth I: What's that?
Tenth Doctor: It's a machine that goes... ding. [device dings] It lights up in the presence of alien DNA. Also, it can microwave frozen dinners from up to twenty feet away and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop.
Queen Elizabeth I: What's that?
Tenth Doctor: It's a machine that goes... ding. [device dings] It lights up in the presence of alien DNA. Also, it can microwave frozen dinners from up to twenty feet away and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop.
Dax: The magnetic deflection of a runabout's hull is extremely weak. The probes will never be able to detect it.
O'Brien: They will if I outfit them with a differential magnetomer.
Dax: A differential magnetomer?
O'Brien: Mm-hmm.
Dax: I've never heard of a differential magnetomer. How does it work?
O'Brien: I'll let you know as soon as I finish making one.
O'Brien: They will if I outfit them with a differential magnetomer.
Dax: A differential magnetomer?
O'Brien: Mm-hmm.
Dax: I've never heard of a differential magnetomer. How does it work?
O'Brien: I'll let you know as soon as I finish making one.
"That's a communications system. It needs repair, but I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators."
— Keevan, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Rocks and Shoals"
Smith, to me, represents the last of a valiant but doomed race — the writers of the Buck Rogers-Flash Gordon school. The time is fast disappearing — at least in the better science-fiction magazines — when the author, in a difficult situation, can, "—turn to his micro-ultra-philmeter, he rapidly tore out a dozen connections, spot-welded twenty-seven busbars, and converted the machine into an improved von Krockmeier hyperspace lever, which bent space like the blade of a rapier and hurtled him in a flash from hilt to point—" My apologies to Theodore Sturgeon for that quote.
— Fan letter to Astounding Stories, Feb 1942
Hank: [sees schematic on wall] Is this our grill?
Kahn: Our new grill! Yeah, yeah, new ideas hit me all the time. It now has every accoutrement a tailgating Football Junkie could ever desire.
Kahn: Our new grill! Yeah, yeah, new ideas hit me all the time. It now has every accoutrement a tailgating Football Junkie could ever desire.
Q: We've installed some interesting modifications. You see this arm here? Open the top and inside are your defense mechanism controls. Smokescreen. Oil slick. Rear bulletproof screen. And left and right front wing machine guns. Now, this one I'm particularly keen on. You see the gear lever here. Now, if you take the top off, you find a little red button. Whatever you do, don't touch it.
James Bond: And why not?
Q: Because you release this section of the roof and engage and fire the passenger ejector seat. Whoosh!
Bond: Ejector seat? You're joking.
Q: I never joke about my work, 007.
James Bond: And why not?
Q: Because you release this section of the roof and engage and fire the passenger ejector seat. Whoosh!
Bond: Ejector seat? You're joking.
Q: I never joke about my work, 007.
"You know what I miss most about running with you? The toys."
— Nightwing to Batman, Batman: Under the Red Hood
