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Verrucosus
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"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, ???
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Jim_P1238
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"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"
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Jim_P1238
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By the way do any of the people in the game accually exsist?
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Clear Skies
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looking for a saviour in these dirty streets
Jul 2000
time: 05:14
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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
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Method
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/me goes to France
Feb 2001
time: 00:14
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quote:
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.
Last edited by Method on 27-06-2001 at 23:50
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The Commodore
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Huntsville,Al,USA
Dec 2000
time: 05:14
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"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?
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bondetamp
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Oslo, Norway
Nov 1999
time: 06:14
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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"
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Hydro
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Winfield, IL, USA
Jun 1999
time: 05:14
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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
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Ken Hinds
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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
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