Fave SMAC quote?

[Clear Skies]

"Let the Gaians preach their silly religion", I believe.

[Cybergod]

I just find the Self-Aware Colony SP's blurb AND Self-Aware Machines blurbs eerie:

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

and, if you scroll down when you discover S-A Machines, you'll find

^I swear sometimes they're watching me.
^
^ -- Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman,
^ Metagenics Biomachinery Division


PS. Yes I am a big fan of Miriam's blurbs okay?!

[Jim_P1238]

GrimBlade, yes I meant are they modled after real people.

[The Commodore]

"Resourses exist to be consumed, and consumed they will be, if not by this generation, then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?!? NONE, I say...let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."

CEO, Nawabodika Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"


And, of course, Sevn's little blurds from "The Ripple and The Wave".


Where is the "Mary Had a Little Lamb" bit from?

[Deimos]

It's the quote you get from building the Dream Twister(Psi Attack +50%) SP.

[n.c.]

Anything from Aki Zeta-5. That is one sexy voice.

[bondetamp]

The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to
the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability,
we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not
allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this
ridiculous witch hunt!"
-- Fedor Petrov,
Vice Provost for University Affairs

You get it when you get retroviral engineering.

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.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

and, of course,

It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and
become one with all the people.

-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Ethics for Tomorrow"

[Earwicker]

The whispering voice for that Bozon Pete quote always creeps me out (that's what happens when you always play late at night). The HSA quote and Assassin's Redoubt are my favorites

I think it's for Nanominiaturization where smug ol' Morgan says: "Forget what your coutesans have told you, size does matter." That one really provides an insight into his decadent faction.

Lal's quote about "I loved my chosen" is creepy in the context of the cloning vats. No wonder he's so erratic.

[JoeK]

If only I could remember exactly how it goes...

"Nanocomputers, ???, ???; forget all that...
It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a wire the thickness of human hair that you really find God in technology."
-- Anonymous Mogan??? worker


Joe.

[kittenOFchaos]

My favorite -probably quite popular!

"Resourses exist to be consumed, and consumed they will be, if not by this generation, then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?!? NONE, I say...let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."

CEO, Nawabodika Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"

[Kirnwaffen]

I like the quote for the Homo Superior tech.

"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

[Hydro]

I like Yang's quotes, since they let us into his deep and obscure mind, and since they let us know he is more than just a mindless commie thug.

However, I love Dee's quotes, which almost always deal with the hard ecological realities or strange sentient potential of Planet. These give me an insight into what Planet is, and why it works. Of these quotes here is my favorite:

Sentient Econometrics
The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But when, once every hundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis kills off most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that we humans can help to break this tragic cycle.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"

With these few sentences I see an ancient planet (the Lower Paleozoic, for those who are not up on your geologic time scale, was 500 million or more years ago) with an interlinked sentience that operates in cycles of 100 MY. By inference this means the Progenitor's experiment of Manifold 6 may have been operating longer than there has been life on Earth.

Wow.

Hydro

[KrazyHorse]

"Pain is simply information before the senses" etc by Chairman Mao...I mean Yang.

I found the "Abort, Retry, Fail" quote (from the Matter Editation discovery?) hilarious.

[Ken Hinds]

Deimos,

Did you notice that the Spartan Barracks weenies messed up their portion of the cadance? Instead of repeating the leader they sing out with "I don't know what I've been told".

Ken

[Clear Skies]

I don't get to see the Weather Paradigm vid very often (I usually play on TimeWarp), but I do love the Gaian Acolyte's Prayer that plays in the background.
And yes, the Spartan weenies DO appear to have gotten it wrong. No surprise there then...