Fave SMAC quote?

[Clear Skies]

Another of my infamous 'Favourite' threads

C'mon everyone, what's your favourite SMAC/X quote? I quite like one that I don't believe is actually used for any tech/facility:

"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 solecism?"
- Project Pyrrho,
Specimen 46,
Vat 7
Activity recorded Mission Year 2302, 22467
Termination of specimen advised.

[Cybergod]

Yeah, I like that quote too, it makes you wonder

Check this one out:

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"

[Cybergod]

By the way SMAC Fanatic, you hear your favourite quote when you build the Bioenhancement Centre.

[Velociryx]

:evil grin:

Mine is:

"Mary had a little lamb
Little lamb, little lamb....
Mary had a little lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow....

-Final transmission from (forgot the Spartan base name)

When coupled with the EERIE SP movie, it just leaves you with a creepy feeling....

-=Vel=-

[Grimblade]

Mine would have to be this:

Deidre asks me for an amount of energy credits, and I choose the option for lesser credits.

Then she goes: "Be warned! credits, or else!"
Then I reply: "Shrivel and die, you Nature Loony!"

[Lefty Scaevola]

"How can you tyranize someone who cannot feel pain"

[MattyBoy]

When you get Doctrine: Flexibility...

Something like "He held his arm too stiffly, ..."

Classic attitude from Santiago.
A great lesson to teach your kids, too.

[Deimos]

Vel,

The base in question is Assassins' Redoubt.


My favorite is the cadance that you hear upon building a Network node. I like cadances for some odd reason. Never was in the military, and I'm not a jogger.....go figure.

I don't know but I've been told,
Deirdre's got a Network Node.
Likes to press the on-off switch,
Dig that crazy Gaian witch!

-- Spartan Barracks March

[Sealurk]

Mine is:

'We do not seek to become a monopoly. It's just that our competitors beleive we are too good to compete with' (Morgan, Not exact)

Then: 'What goes up...better doggone well stay up!'
CEO Nwabudike Morgan upon Applied Gravitonics

And:
'A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Wooed women at every base
But when they glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace'

The Cyborg Factory

[Verrucosus]

"God does not play dice." - Albert Einstein, Datalinks

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice. The dice are loaded." - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, ???

[Jim_P1238]

"Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary,
but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need
as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards
of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep
thrumming of our common pulse."

-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Centauri Monopoly"

[Jim_P1238]

By the way do any of the people in the game accually exsist?

[Grimblade]

(Note: Please don't be ticked off by what I say here.)
If you mean "Are any of the people in the game modeled after real people?", then the answer's probably yes.

Otherwise..

Sure, the UN launched a ship 60 years ago to create hope for a dying planet and those people are now happily leading factions on an alien planet.

[Clear Skies]

So that's why I've never heard it - I always build the Cyborg Factory as soon as I can...

Another good few:

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever"
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
The father of Rocketry

"In one dimension, I find existence; in two, I find life; but in three, I find freedom."
- Foreman Domai,
Cadet Induction Ceremony, Mission Year 2216

"If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make plans against it."
- Sun Tzu,
The Art of War

[Method]

Originally posted by Verrucosus
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice. The dice are loaded." - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, ???

that would be chairman sheng-ji-yang "looking god in the eye"

you are orphans earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried, so young among the somethings. yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you. are you a breath of life you to invigorarte a complacent world you earthhumans? or an incidious cancer which must be exised.
-lady deirdre skye
"conversations w/ planet"

aerospace complex i believe

you are the children of a dead planet earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. we shall take you in but may we ask this question? will we too catch the planetdeath disease?
lady deirdre skye
"conversations w/ planet"

you waited so long to heed us earthdeirdre. almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.
-lady deirdre skye
"conversations w/ planet"

let the gaians something or other, but one way or another i shall see this compound burned seared, until every last hiding place is found until every last mind worm egg every last slimy one has been cooked to a smoking husk. that species shall be extirminated, i tell you exterminated!
-acedemician prokor zakharov
something.