k2enemy is quoting the film's main antagonist played by Ben Kingsley.
At the time this line was spoken, it would've been scoffed at by most military generals [1]. But for us hackers, it was reaffirming to our perceptions and beliefs about the future.
And now we have Stuxnet, NSA surveillance programs, and god knows what else.
1. At this time, most of our electronic warfare operations were physically bombing key water/power stations and reverse engineering enemy hardware with o-scopes and rs-232 consoles.
And it's not about who's got the most bullets.
It's about who controls the information: ...what we see and hear, how we work, what we think.
It's all about the information.