Cool Tech Quotes

[darkhand]

I tell you, Civ4 has improved my library of quotes better than anything else I've ever done in my life. Patrick Stewart quothes forth some prose whenever you discover a tech, which means that the early ones are ingrained into my mind. Some of my favs:

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." -Alphabet (Or writing?)

"Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" -Pottery. My personal favourite.

"I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron." -Railroad, and the most wtfinducing quote in the game .

What other cool tech quotes are there in civ4?

 

[Vonreuter]

Definitely the one by Benjamin Franklin that can't be uttered without some trolls appearing.

 

[vinstafresh]

I don't understand the pig iron quote...

I like the simplicity of the satellites-quote: 'Beep, beep, beep' - Sputnik

And Homer's quote for Bronze Working: 'it is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to ly mangled by the bronze spear. In his death, all things appear fair' <- I don't seem to get this one entirely as to I cannot explain it in my own words, but I get goosebumps when I hear it. Such drama, such serenity.

Steampower: 'You're going to let a ship go against the current by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense' - Napoleon

Not sure about the tech, but:

'The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy'

and

Corporation: 'Corporation, noun, an ingenious device to allow personal gain without personal responsibility'

Those 2 last quotes are so true judging from my own experience working at a bank. It has put a lot of things around me in perspective.

Gunpowder: 'You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word' - Al Capone

I like at least 95% of the quotes, there's a lot of wisdom in there!

 

[Stylesjl]

Polictical Power grows out of the barrel of a gun- Mao Zedong- Rifling. That one is cool

 

[Wolfiefang]

Not sure about the tech, but:

'The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy'

Civil Service! Hehehe, so true

it is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to ly mangled by the bronze spear. In his death, all things appear fair

Yes a very nice one, with multiple meaning too it. Even if you could put wods to it, you'd come up with a short story. So I won't even try.


I also agree that the Ben Franklin qoute is great and though I fear trolls, I love Ben Franklin too much to not qoute him.

Liberalism:"Any society that would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both"


Also Henry Ford Qoutes rock!

Industrialism?:"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is; Make the best quality goods possible at the lowest prices possible, paying the highest wages possible" :cough::walmartsux::cough:: )

Assembly line:"People can have the Model-T in any color - so long as it's black" (I used to always joke "Sure it's free - once you pay for it" )

Galileo Galilei one is my favorite (only because I moved from Florida to Kansas for 2 1/2 years before I moved out)
Scientific Method:"I do not feel obliged to believe that teh same god who has endowed us with with sense, reason, and intellect has intended for us to forgo it's use."


Sorry in advance for typoes, misqoutes, and if I wake up any trolls x.X

 

[DeathGoth]

I also agree that the Ben Franklin qoute is great and though I fear trolls, I love Ben Franklin too much to not qoute him.

Liberalism:"Any society that would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both"

A man who told the future.

I will not say much about this but I agree with this so much compared to how the States are run today.

Also kinda like Fatherland Security... I meant Homeland Security

All I have to say is.. Terrorism.

 

[vinstafresh]

Quote:
Originally Posted by vinstafresh
it is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to ly mangled by the bronze spear. In his death, all things appear fair


Yes a very nice one, with multiple meaning too it. Even if you could put wods to it, you'd come up with a short story. So I won't even try.

Yes, too bad I always have the sounds of riots over the quote when I adopt slavery

 

[Carcosa]

Patrick Stewart quothes forth some prose whenever you discover a tech

That would be Leonard Nimoy (Spock). Patrick Stewart is Picard.

I'm quite partial to Sputnik myself.

 

[Swayde]

Hehe I didn't realize it said "Pig Iron" on that one...I thought it said "I got cigars", which is even more of a head scratcher and funny

 

[J_RocKeT76]

When I first heard pig iron I knew I had heard it before. Johnny Cash sung the version I probably heard but it is a song called "Rock Island Line". Pretty hard to do if you havent heard it but the song goes like a train with the lyrics picking up speed as the song goes.


ROCK ISLAND LINE
(Traditional / Huddy Ledbetter / Arr. Lonnie Donegan)
Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - 1956

Now, this here’s the story about the Rock Island Line
The Rock Island line, she runs down into New Orleans
There’s a big toll gate down there
And, y’ know, if you got certain things on board
When you go through the toll gate
Well you don’t have to pay the man all toll
Well, the train driver, he pulled up to the toll gate
The man only asked him what he had on board, and he said
I got livestock, I got livestock
I got cows, I got pigs, I got sheep, I got mules, I got- all livestock
Well, he said, you’re alright, boy
You don’t have to pay no toll
You just go right on through
So, he went on through the toll gate, and as he went through
He started picking up a little bit of speed
Picking up a little bit of steam
He got on through he turned a look back to the man, he said
Well, I fooled you, I fooled you
I got pig iron, I got pig iron
I got all pig iron

Down the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line, it’s the road to ride
The Rock Island Line, it’s a mighty good road
Well, if you want to ride you gotta ride like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line

It was cloudy in the west, looked like rain,
But round the curve come-a passenger train.
North-bound train on the south-bound track,
You were all right a-leavin but you won’t be back

Well, the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line, it’s the road to ride
The Rock Island Line, it’s a mighty good road
Well, if you want to ride you gotta ride like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line

Now I may be right and I may be wrong
But you’re gotta miss me when I’m gone

Well, the engineer said before he died,
There were two more drinks he’d like to have tried,
The doctor asked him “what could they be”
“a hot cup of coffee and cold glass of tea”

Well, the Rock Island Line she's a mighty good road
The Rock Island Line, it’s the road to ride
The Rock Island Line, it’s a mighty good road
Well, if you want to ride you gotta ride like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line

 

[vinstafresh]

That's one mystery solved

 

[AngryPants]

I always wondered about the pig iron quote as well. Johny Cash did pwn. Too bad my generation gets stuck with John Mayer and Ashlee Simpson.

 

[Glutius Maximus]

I like this one:

"I give the poor food and they call me a saint. I ask why the poor don't have any food and they call me a Communist."

For Communism, forgot the chap's name.

 

[Casluerj]

I like the fishing one... Does someone remember it?

 

[All Pig Iron!]

I like the fishing one... Does someone remember it?

I assume that's "give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

My favorite one is the liberty/security one. So damn true.

 

[Meffy]

A more accurate quasi-quotation for Fishing might be:

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will float around in a boat drinking beer and drowning worms for a lifetime.

 

[TCGTRF]

A more accurate quasi-quotation for Fishing might be:

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will float around in a boat drinking beer and drowning worms for a lifetime.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for an evening. Set a man on fire and he'll be hot for the rest of his life."

Tom

 

[budweiser]

I tell you, Civ4 has improved my library of quotes better than anything else I've ever done in my life. Patrick Stewart quothes forth some prose whenever you discover a tech, which means that the early ones are ingrained into my mind. Some of my favs:

It's Leonard Nimoy. Spock, not Picard.

All the quotes are meant to be cool, but it seems like Leonard just mailed them in. Too bad Shatner wasn't available. That..... would rock!

The only one I really don't like is the rock-n-roll quote. They could have gotten a better one than that.

 

[Fusker]

I love the quote for electricity.
To paraphrase:

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles"

T. Edison

 

[Madingo]

not a civ iv quote--but

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.: Eric Fromm