Guy Pearce credited as playing...
Peter Weyland
- Peter Weyland: When Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft, the gods, well you might say they overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire, our first true piece of technology.
- [last lines]
- Peter Weyland: For those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will or i will die trying. For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself: My name is Peter Weyland and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change the world.
- Peter Weyland: Rules, restrictions, laws, ethical guidelines, all but forbidding us from moving forwards. Well, where were the ethics during the Arabian conflicts? Why are rules preventing us from feeding impoverished cultures? How is there a law that states, "If we build a man from wires and metal, a man who will never grow old, who will never feel the heat of a star or the cold of the moon... how is the creation of such an incredible individual considered unnatural?" The answer to all these questions is simple: These rules exist because the people who created them were afraid of what would happen if they didn't. Well I am not afraid!
- Peter Weyland: 100,000 BC, stone tools. 4,000 BC, the wheel. 800 BC, sundial. 9th century AD, gunpowder; bit of a game-changer, that one. 1441, the printing press, only slightly less impactful. 19th century, steam engine, railway, eureka! the light bulb! 20th century, the automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, internet. 21th century, biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission and m-theory, and that was just the first decade. We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civilization, we are on the verge of terraforming planets undiscovered just a decade ago. We have identified the generic chain of events behind 98% of cancers, a chain we have broken, effectively curing them. We can create cybernetic individuals who, in just a few short years, will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: We are the Gods now.