1:15:01
They have to know
where you are to serve it,
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but you deliberately made yourself
unavailable, remained in hiding.
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Doesn't an American citizen
have a right to privacy?
1:15:14
Tell me something, sir, I'll bet you have
a share or two of stock in Omnitech.
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I'm the majority stockholder.
1:15:22
Yes, I kind of thought you were.
1:15:24
Now, what about all those
little stockholders
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who got wind of the appalling notion
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that you, Mr. Richards, grabbed up
an earthshaking idea and strangled it?
1:15:35
You know what I find appalling?
1:15:37
That you have the arrogance
to pass judgment
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on something
you don't know anything about.
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But you do, Mr. Richards?
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When we test something,
like the momentum engine,
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and we find out it doesn't work,
we drop it.
1:15:49
We spend our time and money
on something that will work.
1:15:52
What about the experts
who say it does work?
1:15:55
You think that I would deliberately
dump an idea
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that could make millions
for my stockholders?
1:16:00
But you've got billions committed
to the internal combustion engine.
1:16:04
Omnitech makes spark plugs,
you want to go on making spark plugs.
1:16:08
There's money in carburetors,
you want to go on making carburetors.
1:16:12
You've got vested interests
in 16 oil companies,
1:16:15
you want to go on selling gas.
1:16:17
You have one noble purpose,
Mr. Richards:
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To keep things the way they are.
1:16:22
Look, an idea
doesn't just turn into a reality.
1:16:26
Something's got to make it happen.
1:16:28
It takes money to build factories,
grind out a product, advertise it, sell it.
1:16:33
Did you ever hear of a box of cereal
or a tube of toothpaste
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going out and giving birth to itself?
Do you know what it takes?
1:16:40
- Capital.
- Capital! You're damn right!
1:16:43
And I'm not going to commit
my corporation to the expenditure
1:16:46
of millions of dollars
on an idea that just doesn't work.
1:16:50
That you say doesn't work.
1:16:52
Look! Thomas Edison
dreamed up the electric light bulb.
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The government gave him a patent so
that he could profit from his invention.