Chief Bahia: You do realize how insane all these things you've done are?
Steffi: Well, when you string it all together, I'm sure it sounds pretty crazy. But it all seemed like a good idea at the time?
Benzene: Yeah, no, not really.
Steffi: Well, when you string it all together, I'm sure it sounds pretty crazy. But it all seemed like a good idea at the time?
Benzene: Yeah, no, not really.
Pearl: [imitating Marina] "Look, Pearl! There's a sale on cordless jump ropes! I'm gonna buy 'em all!"
Marina: It seemed like a good idea at the time!
Gul Dukat: You are speaking to the new Chief Military Advisor to the Detapa Council.
Captain Sisko: Does this mean you've turned your back on Central Command?
Dukat: It means that as a loyal officer of the Cardassian military, I am pledged to serve the legitimate ruling body of the Empire, whoever that may be.
Sisko: In other words, you saw which way the wind was blowing and switched sides.
Dukat: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Captain Sisko: Does this mean you've turned your back on Central Command?
Dukat: It means that as a loyal officer of the Cardassian military, I am pledged to serve the legitimate ruling body of the Empire, whoever that may be.
Sisko: In other words, you saw which way the wind was blowing and switched sides.
Dukat: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
— Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Way of the Warrior"
Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now... (bangs the table) you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Well...
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
I didn't like that plan. We didn't know how long the fighting had been going on and it might stop at any moment, and whoever won might go after the trapped humans. I said, It would take too long, and the pods might be blocking the shaft. I've got a better idea.
At least, that's what I thought at the time.
At least, that's what I thought at the time.
