Rodney McKay quotes from Stargate Atlantis

Maj. Sheppard

You think it's worth checking out?

Dr. McKay

Any significant energy emission generally indicates technological civilization.

Maj. Sheppard

So... you think it's worth checking out?

Dr. McKay

[sarcastically] I'm sorry. Yes. Energy field good.

Dr. McKay

[seriously] Okay, maybe not.

Dr. McKay

Let's play a quiet game. Let's see who can be quiet the longest.

I'm not a quiet person.

Dr. McKay

That's not quiet. That's talking.

Well, I'm not a quiet person. I talk a lot.

You're mean!

Dr. McKay

Thank you for finally noticing. [gets mad and starts to shake Casta] Oh, you wanna go? You wanna go do you?!

Okay [picks up Casta] You have a real gift with the kids. You do birthday parties?

Dr. Weir

Rodney! We can't just visit planets, take away their defenses, uproot their cultures and bring ‘em all back here to Atlantis!

Dr. McKay

If they have a ZPM, yes we can.

Dr. Weir

Oh my god! How morally superior you must feel!

Dr. McKay

No, no, no, no, he just doesn't like going through the Stargate.

Maj. Sheppard

He's worse than Dr. McCoy.

Teyla

Who?

Maj. Sheppard

The TV character that Dr. Beckett plays in real life.

Dr. McKay

C'mon, how often do you get to travel to an alien planet?

Dr. Beckett

I was already on an alien planet!

Maj. Sheppard

Look, what you people do with your C4 is none of our business. We just need food. As far as your little secret down here goes…well, uh…

Dr. McKay

We say, "What giant underground bunker?"

Dr. McKay

You do realise that long term exposure to these levels of radiation is extremely dangerous?

Our scientists tell me otherwise.

Dr. McKay

Well, they're wrong.

Maj. Sheppard

[nervously] Are we in danger now?

Dr. McKay

Oh, it would take days or weeks at these levels of radiation -- but I assume the Genii spend days or weeks down here?

Many of our people have spent their entire lives here.

Dr. McKay

Their entire short lives. [To John] We'll be fine - just as long as you weren't planning on having children.

Maj. Sheppard

You can build an A-bomb?

Dr. McKay

Major, most of my highschool chess team could design an A-bomb.

Dr. McKay

I built an atomic bomb for my grade six Science Fair exhibit.

They let you do that up in Canada?

Dr. McKay

Yeah, then I was questioned by the CIA for six hours.

Maj. Sheppard

How much power are we talking about here?

Dr. McKay

In terms of joules or ergs?

Maj. Sheppard

In terms of lots.

Dr. McKay

Well, lots and lots. Enough to dial back to Earth.

Dr. McKay

It's like looking through a microscope at a cell culture and seeing a thousand dancing hamsters. It's impossible!

Dr. Weir

Rodney, you need to calm down.

Dr. McKay

No, no, what I need to do now is get very agitated because what I'm realizing is all this is a lie!

Maj. Sheppard

The dead people were a dead giveaway.

Dr. McKay

Dead people? What were you doing?!

Dr. McKay

You're right. If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth - did you bring yours?

Dr. Zelenka

You know, you're not pleasant when you're like this, McKay.

Dr. McKay

I'm always like this.

Dr. Zelenka

My point exactly.

Dr. Weir

The city can handle that?

Dr. McKay

Yes. Theoretically.

Maj. Sheppard

Like "dinosaurs turned into birds" theoretically or "theory of relativity" theoretically?

Dr. McKay

[looks confused, since there is no "hierarchy" of theories] What? Um, somewhere between.