Civ 6 Quotes

Technology Quotes

• “No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
  Plutarch (essays: Plutarch’s Morals)
• “I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.”
  Janet Fitch (book: White Oleander)
• “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
  Will Rogers (a commentary, not documented)
• “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
  Winston S. Churchill (not documented, might not be the OG quoter)
• “Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?”
  Merle Travis (a commentary or interview, not documented)
• “When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
  Will Rogers (second quote. a commentary, not documented)
• “Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore.”
  Benjamin Franklin (book: The Way to Wealth)
• “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”
  Sir Francis Drake (not documented)
• “I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
  Arthur C. Clarke (not documented)
• “A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” – Hippocrates
• “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” -W. H. Auden
• “The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.” – Sir John Thomson
• “I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “May the forces of evil become confused while your arrow is on its way to the target.” – George Carlin
• “Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” -Mark Twain
• “Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”– Adrienne Clarkson
• “When wasteful war shall statues overturn, and broils root out the work of masonry.” – William Shakespeare
• “Bronze is the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.” – Aeschylu
• “I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because bronze will last for thousands of years.” – Richard MacDonald
• “Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.” – Lorne Michaels
• “Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” – Anthony D’Angelo
• “And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” – John Masefield
• “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar Bradley
• “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
• “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown
• “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” – Winston Churchill
• “A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.” – John Steinbeck
• “The Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” – Marie Osmond
• “Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” – Mark Twain
• “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder … Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” – Capt. E.J. Smith, RMS Titanic
• “There is nothing but a plank between a sailor and eternity.” – Thomas Gibbons
• “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” – Shakuntala Devi
• “If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” – Galileo Galilei
• “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” – Criss Jami
• “The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.” – Dave Barry
• “One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering.” – Robert Heinlein
• “Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” – Scott Adams
• “Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.” – Saul Alinsky
• “Strategy requires thought; tactics require observation.” – Max Euwe
• “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.” – Lemony Snicket
• “Few inventions have been so simple as the stirrup, but few have had so catalytic an influence on history.” – Lynn White Jr.
• “Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I asked, mercy I found.” – William Camden
• “I’d imagine the whole world as one big machine. Machines never come with any spare parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need.” – Hugo Cabret
• “Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.” – Gregory Benford
• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
• “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
• “Blast – Build – Battle” – Motto of the U.S. 16th Engineer Brigade
• “The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in the field armies; in the late war there were never enough sappers at any time.” – Bernard Montgomery
• “Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” – Nemo Nox
• “If you see a castle under fog, you must walk there to meet the extraordinary dreams.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” – Henry Ford
• “What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.” – Marty Rubin
• “If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” – J. Paul Getty
• “I saw a bank that said ’24-Hour Banking,’ but I didn’t have that much time.” – Steven Wright
• “The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.” – Thomas Carlyle
• “Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parades.” – Philip Bailey
• “The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press is heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything.” – Terry Pratchett
• “What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.” – Wendell Phillips
• “There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does.” – Allan Villiers
• “It’s not the towering sails, but the unseen wind that moves a ship.” – English Proverb
• “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” – Plato
• “Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.” – Brian May
• “And first Hephaestus makes a great and massive shield … And he forged on the shield two noble cities.” – Homer
• “Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer.” – Rick Riordan
• “The lowest is to attack a city. Siege of a city is only done as a last resort.” – Sun Tzu
• “All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.” – Miles Cameron
• “I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things. People need the use of their hands to feel creative.” – Andre Norton
• “The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed.” – E.F. Schumacher
• “Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or exciting our sense of wonder.” – Carl Sagan
• “If facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” – Albert Einstein
• “It’s one thing to surmise what happened, but we don’t speculate on that until ballistics confirms what happened …” – John Hansen
• “Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics yet?” – Adam Savage
• “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill
• “No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.” – Karl von Clausewitz
• “It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine.” – Winston Churchill
• “Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.” – Lawrence Henderson
• “No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet.” – Sylvia Burwell
• “Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for us?” – John Cleese
• “Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.” – Nikita Khrushchev
• “You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” – Margaret Thatcher
• “Bolt actions speak louder than words.” – Craig Roberts
• “Never criticize a rifleman until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he’ll be barefoot and you’ll be out of range.” – The 2nd Target Company
• “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.” – Chuck Yeager
• “For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable.” – Charles Eisenstein
• “Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do of our own bodies … yet the auto has replaceable parts.” – B.J. Palmer
• “The best steel doesn’t always shine the brightest.” – Joe Abercrombie
• “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.” – George Gobel
• “Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.” – Earl Wilson
• “A world without radio is a deaf world.” – Ernest Yeboah
• “Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.” – Steve Allen
• “Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.” – Peter Reiss
• “Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.” – Sir William Crookes
• “The cars haven’t advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it’s still a gas combustion engine.” – Dana Brunetti
• “I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.” – Winston Churchill
• “Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we’ve lost and what leisure we’ve sacrificed in the race for efficiency.” – Ginger Rogers
• “If God had really intended men to fly, He’d make it easier to get to the airport.” – George Winters
• “Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.” – John Carmack
• “When you launch a rocket, you’re not really flying that rocket. You’re just sort of hanging on.” – Michael P. Anderson
• “Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” – George Patton
• “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
• “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” – George S. Patton
• “The chief incalculable in war is the human will.” – B.H. Liddell Hart.
• “In the hierarchy of the major poetic substances, plastic figures as a disgraced material, lost between the effusiveness of rubber and the flat hardness of metal.” – Roland Barthes
• “Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe plastic.” – Patricia Dunn
• “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” – Paul R. Ehrlich
• “The good thing about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.” – Ted Nelson
• “If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.” – Winston Churchill
• “Leave the atom alone.” – E. Y. Harburg
• “There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.” – Lily Tomlin
• “There may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.” – Joe Hill
• “Mr. Watson… Come here… I want to see you.” – Alexander Graham Bell
• “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “A satellite has no conscience.” – Edward R. Murrow
• “Right now there are thirty-one satellites zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store.” – Ed Burnette
• “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you were heading.” – Lao Tzu
• “I love watching my mom argue with the GPS on the way home.” – Isabelle Fuhrman
• “When God said, ‘Let there be light,’ he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.” – Charles Townes
• “I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.” – Courteney Cox
• “All material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles … variously associated with the first Creation by the counsel of an Intelligent Agent.” – Isaac Newton
• “It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to Earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.” – Herbert Hoover
• “I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.” – Kevin Bacon
• “In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.” – Patti Smith
• “Robotics has been around forever, and it’s been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it’s easy to get carried away.” – Colin Angle
• “I’ll be back.”– Terminator Model T-800
• “If technology is the engine of change, then nanotechnology is the fuel for humanity’s future.” – Natasha Vita-More
• “Many, many rules had begun to bend at the hand of nanotechnology … This produced a lot of good, and a lot of bad.” – Matt Spire
• “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” – Victor Hugo
• “Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek
• “I am a big proponent of harnessing the power of fusion – from 93 million miles away. Fusion is done by our sun really, really well and for free. Here on Earth in reactors, not so much.” – Joe Romm
• “When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.” – Carl Sagan