I fooled you! I fooled you!

[EscapedGoat]

Fascism:

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."

Hitler.

-It's just so true... Especially when the wonder allowed by fascism is Mt. Rushmore, shows some sense of humor by the creators I guess.

[LordShiva]

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the Universe" - Einstein

I'm a physicist and an economist, so I liked that one

[Solver]

Love the quotes, still have them on, probably won't turn them off .

I remember than when the quotes were first introduced, I thought that a couple were placeholders. "I fooled you, I fooled you" sounded like a placeholder to me until I found out where it's from, and the Sputnik quote I really laughed at .

[TheArsenal]

Originally posted by EternalSpark
The one where Napolean *****es out a guy for suggesting a modern boat.

Mine as well. Nimoy really sells the disgust.

"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."

[Nikolai]

It still amazes me how the two most irritating and tiresome quotes in my eyes, the "beep..." and the "pig iron" ones, can be so popular...

[Henrik]

I just wish he'd read the name of the person who said the quote as well (as in SMAC)...

[Jaguar]

"Put your shoulder to the wheel."

It just sounds funny to me.

[Alex]

Originally posted by FireWalkWithMe
or

"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."

Being a Brazilian myself, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that.

[Lembit]

"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word"

As I have discovered time and again.

[Rook]

I thought my computer was caught in some kind of audio loop the first time I heard sputnik. I wasn't looking at the screen.

By the way, isn't that whole thing that Nimoy reads at the beginning, the orignal text and music from Civ 1?

[Axxaer]

Yes AFAIK

[FireWalkWithMe]

Originally posted by Alex


Being a Brazilian myself, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that.

Hey neato u have joy division quoted

[Marid Audran]

While some of the tech quotes are quite elegant others are infuriatingly glib or just plain dumb, and I think this is a bad tendency for a history sim/world-building game like Civilization. I really can't stomach Nimoy quoting Dan Quayle, Velvet Underground, or even Truman Capote; it doesn't ring true. However, I have my favorites:

"I will to my Lord be true and faithful, love all that he loves, and shun all which he shuns." --Feudalism. Nimoy's passion (for Nimoy) speaks true here.

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." --Calander The tranquil wisdom for this tech is quite pleasant.

"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." --Artillery. A very dry bit of humor there, perfect for Nimoy's cadence.

Though Nimoy's most impressive has to be Fission:

"If the radience of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become death, the shatterer of worlds." :b

[Datajack Franit]

I got allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll pig iron

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Marid Audran
"If the radience of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become death, the shatterer of worlds." :b

I love that one - it's from the Bhagavad Gita.

Robert Oppenheimer actually misquoted when he commented on the a-bomb test - he said "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"