Hugo: Have you ever wondered what would happen, if all the geniuses, the artists, the scientists, the smartest, most creative people in the world decided to actually change it? Where, where could they even do such a thing? They'd need a place free from politics and bureaucracy, distractions, greed - a secret place where they could build whatever they were crazy enough to imagine.
Frank Walker: Why now? Why her?
Athena: Because she hasn't given up.
Casey Newton: There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins?
Eddie Newton: Come on, Casey.
Casey Newton: Okay, fine. Don't answer.
Eddie Newton: Whichever one you feed.
Athena: Do you want to know why you could never make me laugh.
Frank Walker: Why?
Athena: Because you're not funny.
Nix: Oh, bollocks.
Young Frank Walker: I'm not giving up.
Frank Walker: There is still a receiver there?
Athena: Last I checked.
Frank Walker: How long ago was that?
Athena: 25 years ago. Roughly.
Athena: You made this yourself?
Nix: Athena, what are you doing here?
Athena: Did you, or didn't you?
Young Frank Walker: Uh, what?
Athena: Did you make this yourself?
Young Frank Walker: Yeah?
Athena: Why?
Young Frank Walker: I guess I got tired of waiting around for someone else to do it for me?
Casey Newton: If you're gonna zap an idea into people's heads, you should really make sure that it's the truth.
Eddie Newton: Why do you love the stars so much, Casey?
Young Casey Newton: Because I wanna go there.
Eddie Newton: But it's so far away.
Jenny Newton: It'll take a long time. A real long time. What if you get all the way up there and there's nothing?
Young Casey Newton: What if there's everything?
Young Frank Walker: Who are you?
Athena: I'm the future, Frank Walker.
Answer: He was using it as a metaphor. The Titanic being mankind heading towards its own destruction. Man was warned of the dangers (wars, global warming, etc) and we didn't do anything to change our ways, "went full stem ahead".
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