Are you married?

Alan

Big tim, the human piece of toast.

Alan

A closed green garden gate surrounded by ferns, with a sealed envelope lying outside in misty woodland. — Original artwork

Mr. Hammond, I've decided not to endorse your park.

Alan

You married?

Alan

I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. I bring you here to protect me from these characters, and the only one I've got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer.

Hammond

Faster, faster, must go faster!

Ian

A small copper gear machine with a wire cage holding a speckled egg and a tiny wrench on top. — Original artwork

God help us; we're in the hands of engineers.

Ian

The complete lack of humility for nature that’s being displayed here is staggering.

Ian Malcolm

A small polished winding key beside a cracked white eggshell on a soft sage-green background. — Original artwork

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Ian

All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.

John

I'm a hacker!

Lex

Loose green wooden blocks lead into a neat ascending row. — Original artwork

It's a UNIX system! I know this!

Lex

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Ariana Richards
Year: 1993
Runtime: 123 min
Genres: science fiction film, adventure film, action film
Country: United States

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Jurassic Park

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Ian Malcolm's 'so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should' became the stock objection to every new technology after 1993. 'It's a UNIX system! I know this!' turned into a programmer in-joke that happens to be accurate -- the on-screen interface was fsn, a real experimental 3D file browser for Silicon Graphics IRIX. And the film's most-quoted line is usually misquoted: on screen it is 'Life, uh, finds a way'.