Favourite AC Quote?

[Maniacal]

Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

It's a Lal quote, from the Planetary Datalinks.

I like it because it's true.

Agreed.

I think the mention about Deirdre dancing in the forest came from negotiations, possibly Santiago, when they are trying to get you to declare war on her.

 

[Jack the Ripper]

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever."

 

[Empiremaker]

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever."

I forgot about that one. I shoud've remembered it since it's in .

 

[QES]

"God does indeed play dice, and the dice are loaded."

This is the quote from which my sig is stolen.
-Qes

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century,
free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on
information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but
the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse
has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would
deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself
your master.

Commisioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

One of my fave SMAC quotes, perhaps THE fave.

 

[Maraxus]

I draw my wisdom from Alpha Centauri, too.

One quote I allready used is this "...The dies are loaded" thing, the other is "We must dissent." useable in any situation, where it's time for some random disorder.
I totally like the video of the Self-Aware Colony (or whatever was this with some Believers' Graffiti-Spayer).


Another one I like:

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan
MorganLink 3DVision Interview
(The Longevity Vaccine)

 

[Crimson Sunrise]

"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

-- Soren Kierkegaard,
The Sickness Unto Death


"Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought. "

-- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
We Must Dissent

That's a good one because it can be applied equally to scientific and religious fundamentalists.

 

[Cuivienen]

I've always wondered what the intended meaning of this quote by Sister Miriam was:



"Some would ask: why would a perfect God create a Universe filled with some much that is evil? They have missed a greater conundrum. Why would a perfect God create a Universe at all?"

--Sister Miriam Godwinson
The Blessed Struggle



It almost makes it sound as if Miriam has a crisis of faith at the end of the storyline.

 

[Fifty]

This thread has resulted in me reinstalling SMAC. horray!

 

[Angelscotboi]

I am surprised there hasnt been many Colonel Santiago quotes. For me she had the best quotes in game.

Check my sig. hehe.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

I am surprised there hasnt been many Colonel Santiago quotes. For me she had the best quotes in game.

Check my sig. hehe.

I love her quote for Doctrine: Flexibility. That is the one where she breaks the arm of a student to learn the importance of flexibility.

 

[Furious]

This list is probably complete:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri

I liked the Morganite quote:
Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology.

* Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview

 

[Sahkuhnder]

Here is another webpage:
http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/smac.html

My favorite:
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: Why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

Sister Miriam Godwinson
"But for the Grace of God"


Edit - corrected broken link.

 

[Stylesjl]

Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan
"The Centauri Monopoly"

Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan
"The Centauri Monopoly"

This one is pretty funny "Fall of Sparta"

The klaxon began to wail, but we felt the reassuring tingle of the Tachyon Field crackling to life around us, encasing the entire base in its impenetrable glow.

Spartan Kel
"The Fall of Sparta"

 

[CivLuvah]

my number two faves:

"Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud have we become, and how blind."
-Sister Miriam Godwinson
We Must Dissent

Really explains the religious state of our world today. Full of intolerant atheists & people who think that money is more important than life. Like Obadiah from the "Iron Man" movie & also my signature.

 

[elgado]

We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED/

Descartox VIII is dead! Long live Descartox IX!

Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem.

Sister Miriam Godwinson

This quote isn't particularly great or anything. What makes it stand out is the delivery; sometimes you can even feel Miriam's anger through the speaker.

 

[CheScott]

Haha, this one seems particularly relevant at the moment.

"Fossil fuels in the last century reached their extreme prices because of their inherent utility: they pack a great deal of potential energy into an extremely efficient package. If we can but sidestep the 100 million year production process, we can corner this market once again.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan
Strategy Session"

I quote this one pretty often, usually to people who bagger me about politics.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean."

Aristotle
"Nichomachean Ethics"

And I like this one, because it gives you a flip-side look at science fiction. Very interesting.

I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"Man and Machine"

I love anything Deirdra has to say. =D
I think of this when I listen to conservatives mock environmentalist initiatives.

You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre,
Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.

Lady Deirdre Skye
"Conversations with Planet"

 

[CheScott]

my number two faves:

"Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud have we become, and how blind."
-Sister Miriam Godwinson
We Must Dissent

Really explains the religious state of our world today. Full of intolerant atheists & people who think that money is more important than life. Like Obadiah from the "Iron Man" movie & also my signature.

Though I am not an Atheist, I wonder where all the intolerant Atheists blowing themselves to peices in the name of science are, or agnostics screaming for their blood are.

I think you've talked to too many Atheists on the internet. ^^;

I've always wondered what the intended meaning of this quote by Sister Miriam was:



"Some would ask: why would a perfect God create a Universe filled with some much that is evil? They have missed a greater conundrum. Why would a perfect God create a Universe at all?"

--Sister Miriam Godwinson
The Blessed Struggle



It almost makes it sound as if Miriam has a crisis of faith at the end of the storyline.

This question is not a crisis of faith, but rather a fundamental question of philosophy. If God is perfect, in and of itself, what need is there for a Universe? It is not intended to be an argument against God, though it can be interperted and argued as such. But, she is asking what God wants of us.

 

[_random_]

I've always wondered what the intended meaning of this quote by Sister Miriam was:



"Some would ask: why would a perfect God create a Universe filled with some much that is evil? They have missed a greater conundrum. Why would a perfect God create a Universe at all?"

--Sister Miriam Godwinson
The Blessed Struggle



It almost makes it sound as if Miriam has a crisis of faith at the end of the storyline.

It's sort of like how in the book of Job, Job is asking the same question, and God responds by asking Job questions which Job has no idea how to answer. The gist is: God is infinitely wiser than us, who are we to question him?

 

[Sub]

This thread just convinced me to install AC again.