Colonel Weber Quotes

Colonel Weber: Mornin'.
Louise Banks: Colonel.
Colonel Weber: Gravisti. He says it means an argument. What do you say it means?
Louise Banks: A desire for more cows.

Louise Banks: If all I ever gave you was a hammer...
Colonel Weber: Everything's a nail...

Louise Banks: Let's say that I taught them Chess instead of English. Every conversation would be a game. Every idea expressed through opposition, victory, defeat. You see the problem? If all I ever gave you was a hammer...
Colonel Weber: Everything's a nail.

And remember what happened to the Aborigines. A more advanced race nearly wiped 'em out.

Louise Banks: The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?
Colonel Weber: So we can learn heptapod. If we survive.
Louise Banks: If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do. So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's non-linear.

Louise Banks: Am I fired?
Colonel Weber: You're better than the last guy.
Louise Banks: That doesn't make me feel any better.