What are your favourite three tech quotes and why?

[Zaduzai]

What are your favourite three tech quotes and why?
Even that DoC only have one unique tech I think we could need one not so serious thread...


Mine are:

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, on Robert Fulton's Steamship

Is this why in England they are talking about feet both biology and mathematics lessons in school?

Satellites
"Beep... beep... beep... beep..."
- Sputnik I

This joke just do not get old...

Communism
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara

Never ask why.

Here are list of all quotes except Patronage:
http://www.squidoo.com/civ4quotes

 

[Swarbs]

"Do not throw the arrow which will return against you"

Yes, cos that would be a boomerang.

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God"

Try using that next time you're arguing with a creationist.

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

Tells you all that is wrong with modern governments.

 

[ArguCa]

"The Law is a fortress on a hill that armies cannot take or floods wash away."

The Prophet Muhammed (P.B.U.H.)

 

[blizzrd]

My three favourites are:

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

The source of this quote is listed as 'unknown', but in my view it could easily have been something from Yes Minister.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

As true 400 years ago as it is today.

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."

A personal fave.

 

[SheaferDaDawg]

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
- Ambrose Bierce

By far my personal favorite.

 

[Daedwartin]

Banking
Medieval Era
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson

SO true...standing armies have done what to destroy the US economy...only the south has seen devastation at the hands of the army...the banks have caused the economy to start to implode AGAIN!.

Civil Service
Medieval Era
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
- Unknown

true, EVEN IN CIV 4. the civic bureaucracy itself gives a static boost for ever greater costs...

Military Tradition
Renaissance Era
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
- Sun-Tzu

Sums up my view on war: If the battles are fair fights, you messed up. You always must find every advantage, exploit every weakness. TURN YOUR weaknesses into strengths, BE PREPARED BEFORE THE WAR, INCLUDING MAKING SURE YOU HAVE THE PREVIOUS STUFF HERE PREPARED BEFORE HAND. if you go to war without having prepared to go to war, you have lost already. a mirilce is where your officers show their skill in turning around seemingly lost causes...make sure you have that kind of officers WHEN you dont need them, leading your assault...when you fight a war, you fight to win. your honor and "blessings from god" is meaningless in the face of my superior troops, firepower and tactics.

 

[srpt]

Yes Prime Minister has a great Theology quote as well, courtesy of Sir Humphrey. I believe he says "theology is a device that enables non-believers to remain within the Church"

my favorite show all time. the only thing Margaret Thatcher and I agree on probably.

 

[iOnlySignIn]

Writing

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." - Pliny the Elder

Liberalism

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin

Scientific Method

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

Superconductors

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[blizzrd]

Four is cheating!

 

[Locutus_Morti]

I've always liked the Superconductors quote as well. So much pun!

 

[Bonci]

"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Anacyclosis at its finest XD

 

[Pavel Chichikov]

Yes Prime Minister has a great Theology quote as well, courtesy of Sir Humphrey. I believe he says "theology is a device that enables non-believers to remain within the Church"

my favorite show all time. the only thing Margaret Thatcher and I agree on probably.

Haha. That hits pretty close to home.

 

[Atlantic Pacf.]

Alphabet:

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

This is probably the most powerful quote in the roster, considering how accurately it describes the real world. A person saying certain words can destroy the personality of his victim, while speeches and propaganda have changed the courses of entire countries.

Education:

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

Try saying that to, well, any idiot in general.

Rocketry:

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind. But one cannot eternally live in a cradle."

Powerful and sarcastic and the same time. Me gusta.

 

[iOnlySignIn]

Four is cheating!

Ah, sorry. Didn't notice that in the title. Just 3 then:

Writing

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." - Pliny the Elder

Liberalism

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin

Superconductors

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Pavel Chichikov]

All in all though.. it has to be Satellites. Nothing else comes close.

 

[Daedwartin]

All in all though.. it has to be Satellites. Nothing else comes close.

beep...beep...beep...

 

[Monster2821]

my favorite quote is the 'fission' one.'i am become death destroyer of worlds.'

 

[Daedwartin]

my favorite quote is the 'fission' one.'i am become death destroyer of worlds.'

Truer words ever been spoken. Some mistook Oppemheimer as being bloodthirsty when he said it...it was obvious he was thinking on what a monstrosity he had created, and that he was clearly looking at one of the worst weapons ever made. Now, even the building blocks of creation are our weapon to use. Could you imagine just how they felt then. Now loom at how we feel about nukes today...they only got larger and larger, and we built more and more. The emperor of Japan surrendered because he realized just what nuclear bombs implied. He even said as they surrendered that he feared these weapons would be the end of civilization if man did not change.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

In order:

1. Communism
Industrial Era
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara

2. Mass Media
Modern Era
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
- Oscar Wilde

3. Future Technology
Modern Era
"The future will be better tomorrow."
- Dan Quayle

 

[ImNotHere]

Truer words ever been spoken. Some mistook Oppemheimer as being bloodthirsty when he said it...it was obvious he was thinking on what a monstrosity he had created, and that he was clearly looking at one of the worst weapons ever made. Now, even the building blocks of creation are our weapon to use. Could you imagine just how they felt then. Now loom at how we feel about nukes today...they only got larger and larger, and we built more and more. The emperor of Japan surrendered because he realized just what nuclear bombs implied. He even said as they surrendered that he feared these weapons would be the end of civilization if man did not change.

It's an amazing compliment to the Japanese culture to think that the only thing that would make them surrender is the thought of 100% assured annihilation of the entire Japanese people and civilization itself. They didn't surrender or falter even as their cities were bombed, but only when faced with absolute life or death - that is, no turning back - they surrendered.