- Nathan Spring: You leave Earth and anything you forget to bring with you will kill you. Anything you do bring with you which doesn't work properly will kill you. When in doubt, just assume *everything* will kill you.
- Fox: Mix the personal with the professional, what you get are mistakes. People are part of the design plan - it's dangerous to forget that.
- Nathan Spring: My country right or wrong, eh?
- Commander Griffin: There are worse philosophies.
- Nathan Spring: Yes. Most of them begin with that.