I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people.
It’s beautiful. What kind of people could have built it? To touch even a starship with grace and beauty?
The ship is now armed and preparing to explode. This will be a fairly large explosion, so you’d best keep back about 22 miles.
“About as bad as they come, actually,” she said. Mayhew looked back at her, and she shrugged. “He arranged for a pinnace to bring up its impeller wedge inside a battlecruiser’s boat bay,” she told him much more soberly.
“Sweet Tester!” Matthews murmured, and her smile went crooked and cold.
“If there were any pieces left at all, they were very, very small ones, Benjamin,” she said softly, and his nostrils flared as he inhaled in intense satisfaction.
My little people! The Neoterics! They’ve made the impenetrable shield!
Cool! You mean that I actually have frickin’ sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their frickin’ heads?
These sharks of yours have no etiquette.
I am not what is called a civilized man, Professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore, I do not obey its laws.
If it’ll make you happy, I’ll overthrow society.
It’s… it’s impossible. I don’t believe it.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Where the future is being made, today!
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
We’re explorers. We explore our lives, day by day.
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
Wrong answer, fuckbag. This is the very moment of your reckoning. In the next 30 seconds you’re gonna open up one of two doors. The first door will forever traumatize your own flesh and blood.
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
Swap ships and go on home!
E.T. phone home! E.T. phone home.
There is an alien in the kitchen making bagels and coffee.