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.

[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]

"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...