How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Jurassic Park.
Quote #1
JOHN HAMMOND: In 48 hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.
It's an early sign of Hammond's arrogance that he takes the attorney's valid causes for concern as a childish bet or challenge. He isn't concerned with making the park safe; he's just concerned about winning.
Quote #2
DR. IAN MALCOLM: John, the kind of control you're attempting…it's not possible. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but there it is.
One of Hammond's most dangerous ambitions is to control nature. If you read up on our "Man and the Natural World" theme, you know this does not work out at all.
Quote #3
DONALD GENNARO: We can charge anything we want. $2,000 a day, $10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And there's the merchandise.
Here we see how John Hammond's ambition (or is it greed?) is contagious. The attorney who is supposed to be doing a safety assessment gets carried away thinking about the earning potential for this fabulous new park.