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favorite sci-fi quotes?
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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Mulder - X Files.
Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realise how precious it is.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I am Death not taxes, I turn up only once.
Death - Feet of Clay (Pratchett)
Mulder - X Files.
Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realise how precious it is.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I am Death not taxes, I turn up only once.
Death - Feet of Clay (Pratchett)
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From Serenity, Mal speaking:
"We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so...very.. pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
My second favorite, same filme, Mal and Zoe:
Mal: "If anyone gets nosy, just.. you know..shoot 'em."
Zoe: "Shoot 'em?"
Mal: "Politely."
"We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so...very.. pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
My second favorite, same filme, Mal and Zoe:
Mal: "If anyone gets nosy, just.. you know..shoot 'em."
Zoe: "Shoot 'em?"
Mal: "Politely."
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Two Favorites:
From ET the Extraterrestrial:
Elliott and friends taking ET to his people's spaceship... Greg is the one who wears the headphone radio.
Elliott: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
Elliott: This is reality, Greg, not Star Trek!
The cowards at Amblin butchered that line, so the "not Star Trek" part doesn't show up on the DVD or even the oldest videos of the movie I could find. I only heard it in the original theatrical release in 1982 right when it first came out. I laughed so hard then. I got pretty mad when I tried to show my wife the scene years later and saw the abrupt scene change after "This is reality, Greg." This changed dialog took the movie down a few notches for me.
Speaking of Star Trek: from Devil in the Dark, Kirk has just ordered Dr. McCoy to fix up the phaser wound on the Horta...
McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"
From ET the Extraterrestrial:
Elliott and friends taking ET to his people's spaceship... Greg is the one who wears the headphone radio.
Elliott: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
Elliott: This is reality, Greg, not Star Trek!
The cowards at Amblin butchered that line, so the "not Star Trek" part doesn't show up on the DVD or even the oldest videos of the movie I could find. I only heard it in the original theatrical release in 1982 right when it first came out. I laughed so hard then. I got pretty mad when I tried to show my wife the scene years later and saw the abrupt scene change after "This is reality, Greg." This changed dialog took the movie down a few notches for me.
Speaking of Star Trek: from Devil in the Dark, Kirk has just ordered Dr. McCoy to fix up the phaser wound on the Horta...
McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"
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"What does God need with a Star ship?" James T. Kirk, Star Trek 5
"But captian, life is not a dream" Spock, same movie.
"This sucker is nuclear?
Naw, it's electrical. I just need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts..." Marty McFly and Prof. Brown, back to the future
"But captian, life is not a dream" Spock, same movie.
"This sucker is nuclear?
Naw, it's electrical. I just need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts..." Marty McFly and Prof. Brown, back to the future
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"Mostly Harmless" Earth's entry into the Guide.
"The most usefule thing in the world is your towel"
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful the Babel fish could not have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.'
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
"The most usefule thing in the world is your towel"
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful the Babel fish could not have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.'
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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Jaffa! Cree! - Stargate SG-1
There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it was here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dangit, Daniel! - Jack O'neill, Stargate SG-1
There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it was here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dangit, Daniel! - Jack O'neill, Stargate SG-1
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Salvor Hardin, Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "
Isaac Asimov
"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools."
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile. "
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."
Hyperion, Dan Símmons
"Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth."
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
(And i cannot believ no-one has brought them up so far
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1. "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
2. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
3. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke's "Three Laws"
Salvor Hardin, Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "
Isaac Asimov
"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools."
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile. "
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."
Hyperion, Dan Símmons
"Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth."
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
(And i cannot believ no-one has brought them up so far
)1. "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
2. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
3. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke's "Three Laws"
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Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times. The paths fork and divide with each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths.
However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness. Sometimes you dream about the paths of destiny, and speculate to no purpose. Dream about the paths you took and the paths you didn't take.
The paths diverge and branch and reconnect, some say not even Destiny himself truly knows where any way will take you, where each twist and turn will lead. But even if Destiny could tell you, he will not. Destiny holds his secrets.
The Garden of Destiny. You would know it if you saw it. After all, you will wander it until you die. Or beyond. For the paths are long, and even in death there is not ending to them.
--From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. -- From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
God save us from an Earth in which all men are the same. God save us from a colony where that is the goal, or a culture which assumes that for it's norm. Give me a thousand people, speaking different tongues, worshiping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will make of them a greater nation then you can make with ten thousand of your gengineered duplicates. For mine will have the spark of greatnes in them, while yours will live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in predigested dreams.
-This Alien Shore by CS Friedman
However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness. Sometimes you dream about the paths of destiny, and speculate to no purpose. Dream about the paths you took and the paths you didn't take.
The paths diverge and branch and reconnect, some say not even Destiny himself truly knows where any way will take you, where each twist and turn will lead. But even if Destiny could tell you, he will not. Destiny holds his secrets.
The Garden of Destiny. You would know it if you saw it. After all, you will wander it until you die. Or beyond. For the paths are long, and even in death there is not ending to them.
--From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. -- From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
God save us from an Earth in which all men are the same. God save us from a colony where that is the goal, or a culture which assumes that for it's norm. Give me a thousand people, speaking different tongues, worshiping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will make of them a greater nation then you can make with ten thousand of your gengineered duplicates. For mine will have the spark of greatnes in them, while yours will live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in predigested dreams.
-This Alien Shore by CS Friedman
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"What is Rule One?"
"Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"
Terry Pratchett Thief of Time
"Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"
Terry Pratchett Thief of Time
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"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English."
- Korben Dallas from The Fifth Element
- Korben Dallas from The Fifth Element
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The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
The Book: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Slartibartfast: Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.
Arthur Dent: And are you?
Slartibartfast: Ah, no.
[laughs, snorts]
Slartibartfast: Well, that's where it all falls down, of course.
-Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
"If you are the Beast, then answer me this. Which one hmm? 'Cause the universe has been busy since you've been gone. There are more religions then there are planets in the sky. The Arkiphets, Quoldonity, Christianity, Pash-Pash, Neo-Judaism, San Claar, Church of the Tin Vagabond. Which Devil are you?"
-The Docter (Doctor Who; The Satan Pit)
O'Neill: General, without meaning, this time, to sound like a smartass, are you cracked?
Maybourne: Striking an officer is a quick way to a court martial.
O'Neill: I'm not gonna hit you, Maybourne. I'm gonna shoot you.
Maybourne: Teal'c. It's good to see you well.
Teal'c: In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you.
-Stargate SG-1
Sorry I just have way too many favorites....
The Book: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Slartibartfast: Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.
Arthur Dent: And are you?
Slartibartfast: Ah, no.
[laughs, snorts]
Slartibartfast: Well, that's where it all falls down, of course.
-Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
"If you are the Beast, then answer me this. Which one hmm? 'Cause the universe has been busy since you've been gone. There are more religions then there are planets in the sky. The Arkiphets, Quoldonity, Christianity, Pash-Pash, Neo-Judaism, San Claar, Church of the Tin Vagabond. Which Devil are you?"
-The Docter (Doctor Who; The Satan Pit)
O'Neill: General, without meaning, this time, to sound like a smartass, are you cracked?
Maybourne: Striking an officer is a quick way to a court martial.
O'Neill: I'm not gonna hit you, Maybourne. I'm gonna shoot you.
Maybourne: Teal'c. It's good to see you well.
Teal'c: In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you.
-Stargate SG-1
Sorry I just have way too many favorites....
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