Quotes for
Dennis Nedry (Character)
from Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Lew Dodgson: You shouldn't use my name.
Dennis Nedry: [loudly] Dodgson, Dodgson, we have Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares. Nice hat! What are ya tryin' to look like - a secret agent?

John Hammond: I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.
Dennis Nedry: Thanks, Dad.

Dennis Nedry: Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake.

Dennis Nedry: [scrambling on the ground] My glasses...
[getting up]
Dennis Nedry: I can afford more glasses!

Dennis Nedry: [setting his plan in motion] Anybody want a soda or something?
[John, Ray and Bob turn to him]
Dennis Nedry: 'Cause I'm, ah, I'm going up to the machine and I thought maybe I would get something... since I had something sweet and i thought i would get something salty ah...
[no one says anything]
Dennis Nedry: Oh, ah... I finished debugging the phones,ah, you know, I was gonna, so I did, ah, ah I debugged the phones. I thought maybe I should tell ya that the system's gonna be compiling for, ah, 18 to 20 minutes some of the minor systems, they might go on or off but it's ah, nothing to worry about, just a simple thing.
[after still no one answers, he puts one hand on his watch and another on the mouse. He moves the pointer to a "start" button and just as he clicks it he also clicks his watch. A 60-second countdown timer starts ticking down in-sync to the one on his watch]

Ray Arnold: [trying to bring the system back on-line] Access main program. Access main security. Access main program grid.
[the computer denies him finally saying, "You didn't say the magic word!"]
Dennis Nedry: [on computer] Uh uh uh! You didn't say the magic word! Uh uh uh! Uh uh uh!
[repeating uh uh uh]
Ray Arnold: Please! God damn it! I hate this hacker crap!

John Hammond: Dennis! Our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
Dennis Nedry: Haahaaa... I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to 3 days. Do you think that type of automation is easy... or cheap? Do you know anyone who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I'd like to see him try.
John Hammond: I'm sorry for your financial problems, but they are your problems.
Dennis Nedry: Ahh... You're right John, you're absolutely right! You know what, everything is my problem.
John Hammond: I will not get drawn into another financial debate with you Dennis, I really will not!
Dennis Nedry: There was hardly any debate at all.
John Hammond: I don't blame people for there mistakes... but I do ask that they pay for them.
Dennis Nedry: Thanks dad.

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