- [On pointing the four legs of a chair in a lion's face]
- Dave Hoover, Wild Animal Trainer: His mind now has been completely distracted from his original thought: "Eat the man in the white pants."
- [On creating topiary]
- George Mendonça, Topiary Gardener: This is all done from memory. If you know what a animal looks like, you just, well, you just start making an animal.
- [Why build robots]
- Rodney Brooks, Robot Scientist: I think there's some deeper-seated thing which crosses the sex boundary of understanding life by building something that is lifelike.
- [On training lions]
- Dave Hoover, Wild Animal Trainer: That's the bottom line. If you're not scared of them, you're in big trouble.