Rodney McKay quotes from Stargate Atlantis

Dr. McKay

Col. Sheppard would have already had hours to try to make it back through the portal in the time I wasted explaining the situation to Conan and Xena!

Dr. McKay

What is it with you and ascended women?!

Dr. McKay

I mean, you come in here, you don't help me, you say the one plan I've got is bad, you-you claim to be a creation of my mind and yet you are in no way dressed provocatively!

Dr. McKay

[to a commissary employee] Ah. Hey, what happened to the, um, to the blue jello? My favourite, all of a sudden it’s off the menu. What gives?

Dr. McKay

Look- asking me to do performance evaluations is ridiculous. I am the first person to admit I don't know who these people are, nor do I care to. If you'd like, I can take you down the hall to the labs and just point at the people who annoy me more than the rest, but that's about as useful as I get.

McKay

I told you I wasn't good at 'Asteroids'!

McKay

Now, you want to land this city gently, like a leaf, kissing the surface of a pond!

McKay

Nice kissing!

McKay

Well, gee, let me think. Umm, no. Look, in a mechanical, Newtonian universe, not a problem. I mean, you know enough variables, you can predict the outcome; but quantum physics blows that out of the water.

McKay

[To Sheppard] If this works, we should be able to track every Aurora-class Replicator ship in the galaxy in realtime.

McKay

Well, that's not so bad. I guess the Wraith have really taken a toll.

McKay

On the other hand, my duplicate did say they were building more...

McKay

A lot more.

McKay

Oh, crap...

Dr. McKay

[About to be 'almost' fed on by a Wraith Queen] Great, in my entire life I was never chosen first. And now fate decides to restore the balance.

Dr. McKay

Yeah, pretty much how I remember it.

Dr. McKay

Look, can't you just hold it in?

Dr. McKay

You're a good friend, Arthur.

Dr. McKay

I'm Doctor Rodney McKay! Difficult takes seconds, impossible, a few minutes!

Dr. McKay

...And we'll need the Zed-P-M.

Gen. O'Neill

What?

The ZPM. He's...he's Canadian.

Gen. O'Neill

(at McKay) I'm sorry.

Dr. McKay

The Zero Point Module, General. The ancient power source you recovered from Proclarush Taonas and that's now powering the outpost defenses. I've since determined it generates its enormous power from vacuum energy derived from a self-contained region of subspace time.

Gen. O'Neill

That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation.