Jason Isaacs credited as playing...
Ronald Quincy
- Ronald Quincy: I know the president's chief scientific advisor, we were at MIT together. And, in a situation like this, you-you really don't wanna take the advice from a man who got a C- in astrophysics. The president's advisors are, um... wrong... and I'm right.
- Ronald Quincy: [holds out his hand] Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off, what happens? You burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same firecracker,
- [clenches his hand into a fist]
- Ronald Quincy: and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.
- Dan: With the proximity of the asteroid, and no prep time, none of our primary plans can work.
- General Kimsey: Why don't we just send up a hundred and fifty nuclear warheads and blast that rock apart?
- Ronald Quincy: Terrible idea.
- General Kimsey: Was I talkin' to you?
- Dan: This is Dr. Ronald Quincy from Research. Pretty much the smartest man on the planet You might wanna listen to him.