"Nooooo! I created the laser-fitted Armoured Scorpion of Death to help Mankind, not to destroy it!"
The interest was generated not by the reason for the experiment, but by the fact that we've demonstrated we could trigger a nova. Consequently, the Institute's public information group decided to concentrate on that aspect of the story, and the benefits the human race might eventually derive from the capability. Unfortunately, no one could think of any.
— Kimberly Brandywine, Infinity Beach
RO-Z67: Master, subjects of this age rarely survive the slave conditioning procedure.
Palpatine: I'm afraid the risk is necessary. The natural talent these children possess is too great to be wasted by the Jedi. I foresee an army of force-talented spies in my service, trained in the dark side to peer into every corner of the galaxy from afar. And my enemies note would be helpless against such vision. If the surgery fails, I will have lost nothing.
I was at a Menlo Park conference once where a guy showed us how he'd hacked his hand, literally. Attached electrodes to the skin above the muscles in his forearm to play the piano. He didn't know how to play. Just typed in the commands, clicked "execute", and shazam! "Mary Had a Little Lamb." And that was just the beginning. What about a full exo-suit that could stimulate the entire body?
"Think of the possibilities." That was what the guy kept saying. Disabled individuals. The elderly. "Think of the possibilities."
I could think of a few. I raised my hand and asked, "Isn't it possible for someone to hack that suit once you put it on, force you to pick up your perfectly legal assault rifle, and walk down the street to the local preschool?" He looked like I'd just kicked over his sandcastle. He hadn't wasted one neuron on that thought, because, in his mind, it was just that. A waste. All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it's in the Hindenburg.
"Think of the possibilities." That was what the guy kept saying. Disabled individuals. The elderly. "Think of the possibilities."
I could think of a few. I raised my hand and asked, "Isn't it possible for someone to hack that suit once you put it on, force you to pick up your perfectly legal assault rifle, and walk down the street to the local preschool?" He looked like I'd just kicked over his sandcastle. He hadn't wasted one neuron on that thought, because, in his mind, it was just that. A waste. All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it's in the Hindenburg.
— Frank McCray, Jr., Devolution
"With a little more trial and error, there's no end to what we can do! This is potentially Olympian! This gamma technology has limitless applications. We'll unlock hundreds of cures. We will make humans impervious to disease!"
— Dr. Samuel Sterns, The Incredible Hulk (2008)
"The programnote , if granted sufficient backing from the United States government, will offer a solution to all current and future storage and residential needs, and save billions of dollars on property construction and management."
