Favorite tech in game?

post your favorite tech of the game and the quote.

For example, mine would be

Spoiler :

rocketry: The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle-Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

 

Libaralism because in 3.19 that means you won the game. Spend a few hours mindlessly spamming curaissers for victory

 

Fission

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky. That would be like the splendor of the mighty one. I have become death the shatterer of worlds.

-J Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita

 

Can't get better than Satellite;

Beep…Beep…Beep…Beep…-Sputnik

 

You beat me to it (although Satellites is definitely not my favorite tech)

 

Currency

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
- Publius Syrius

 

I was going to say this too

 

Corporation - "An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

 

I like that quote for Corporation. So true as well

Many good quotes in the game actually.

 

This LP was made by a guy who looooves the tech quotes


Link to video.

 

Many are more inspiring, but none seem quite so apropos as Gunpowder
"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word." --Al Capone

As for actual favourite tech, it would have to be Alphabet [one of the more inspiring quotes, but somehow Al's seems better suited to winning the game]

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our word." --The Buddha

 

Ha..I watched one of his vids some time ago. That guy is really bad at the game, but thinks he is good.

 

Hmm, interesting playthrough

My favorite quote is from Civ3:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win" - Sun Tzu

I think this quote came with the completion of some kind of espionage wonder/Project, but I'm unsure.

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Lots of great quotes. Gunpowder and Corp have already been mentioned, but this is another one of my favorites:

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

 

I don't think espionage existed in Civ3, and if it did it wasn't until late game. I think the quote is from completion of the wonder "Sun Tzu's Art of War" which gave a free barracks in every city.

 

That quote is in Civ 4 too, i believe it's the one for MT.

 

Steam Power - "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense." - Napoleon

 

Quotes that should be in Civ 4:

 

Artillery - "Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl" - Frederick the Great

 

Favorite Tech:
Military Tradition
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win -Sun Tzu
Favorite quote:
Anyone who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both -Ben Franklin