Favorite in-game quotes and/or movies.

[Dio]

Since I am a self-styled poll maker, both formal and informal, I have decided to start a few threads on a variety of topics. This thread is about your favorite in-game quotes and/or movies. If you have multiple, please list them. If two or more are equal, list them as being equal.

Some of my favourites are the one for the Planetary Transit system, Organic Superlubricant, The Longevity Vaccine, Network node qoute, and the Ascetic virtues are also pretty cool. I also really liked the Universal translator, and found the Cloudbase academy to be pretty kick ass.

Though, the one that always gives me chills is probably the Self Aware colony.

Or you can simply name them. How stupid of me.

[Dio]

Some of my favorite quotes include:

^  Mary had a little lamb,
^  Little lamb little lamb,
^  Mary had a little lamb,
^  whose fleece was white as snow.
^
^        -- Assassins' Redoubt,
^           Final Transmission

Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity, can also
be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour out several canisters, slide
in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks.
In under an hour the nano will use available materials to assemble a
small factory, a hovertank, or enough impact rifles to equip a regiment.
^
^        -- Col. Corazon Santiago,
^           "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"

And the Lord God said, "Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live forever, we must send him forth." Therefore the
Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from whence he was taken.
^
^        -- The Conclave Bible,
^           Datalinks

Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our
material resources, over to these . . . things . . . these lumps
of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach
them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little
homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need
of us?
^
^        -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^           "We Must Dissent"

And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this
machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever,
leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?
^
^        -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^           "We Must Dissent"

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 so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our
destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS,
just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than
substance?
^
^        -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^           "We Must Dissent"

Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation,
and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always
they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than
they thought.
^
^        -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^           "We Must Dissent"

Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are
trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just
beyond the last theorem.
^
^        -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^           "But for the Grace of God"

We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers,
the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold
and release them to usher in a new era of glory.
^
^        -- Col. Corazon Santiago,
^           "The Council of War"


^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

[JarlWolf]

Some of my favourites are the one for the Planetary Transit system, Organic Superlubricant, The Longevity Vaccine, Network node qoute, and the Ascetic virtues are also pretty cool. I also really liked the Universal translator, and found the Cloudbase academy to be pretty kick ass.

Though, the one that always gives me chills is probably the Self Aware colony.

Edit: I actually like all of them too much to pick favourites...

[Buster's Uncle]

Cha Dawn talking about feng shui.  The fighters of the Cloudbase Academy.  That layers within layers: worlds within worlds prog one.

[ete]

I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld

There are many incredible and inspiring quotes, but that one always stood out to me.

[Dio]

Great choice ete. I always felt it was a little depressing.

[ete]

Oh, it is. But depressing in a.. way which feels right, if that makes sense. Seeing something you try to avoid as it is, and coming to terms with mortality.

I was a bit of a strange 10 year old when playing this first I guess.

[Dio]

Don't feel bad, I started playing SMAC when I was 11. So you are not the only one who felt that way.

[Buster's Uncle]

Huh.  I was in my mid 30s...

Dio, coincidentally, I was thinking last week that we could use the occasional casual topic thread in here, (some people I've tried to recruit in the past said we looked TOO hardcore for them) so I really appreciate you doing this kind of thread.

[Dio]

Your more than welcome BUncle.

[Buster's Uncle]

What am I going to do when school starts again and you're not around all day?

[JarlWolf]

Oh, it is. But depressing in a.. way which feels right, if that makes sense. Seeing something you try to avoid as it is, and coming to terms with mortality.

I was a bit of a strange 10 year old when playing this first I guess.

Don't feel bad, I started playing SMAC when I was 11. So you are not the only one who felt that way.

Huh.  I was in my mid 30s...

You all make me feel old   

[Geo]

You all make me feel old   

Now, don't be sad. I'd like to think there's still something to look forward to when I hit my fifties. 

[Vishniac]

The Command Nexus.
The quote is probably a favorite of mine and I love to use it either in English or in French. (I have the SMAC guide in French).

I tried the experiment to advance-google "Information the first principle of warfare" and...you'll find 2 results on page 3 and 1 on page 4 which are posts by me on different forums! 

[JarlWolf]

You all make me feel old   

Now, don't be sad. I'd like to think there's still something to look forward to when I hit my fifties. 

Ha..ha... yeah.. 50's...

What if I told you I was older...