Pearls of Wisdom
כבר אמרתי כמה וכמה פעמים שבמשחק אלפא סנטאורי של סיד מאייר, חוץ מהיותו משחק נהדר בפני עצמו שאולי באמת כדאי לשחק מחדש, יש פניני חוכמה מפה ועד הודעה חדשה. יש לי, ממש, עשרות ציטוטים ממנו בקובץ הציטוטים שלי וכל אחד מהם חכם, משעשע, מטריד. אבל יש כמה מהם שפשוט… “חזקים” ומכים בי כל פעם מחדש כשאני קורא אותם. אולי אם לא יעשו אותו הדבר לכל אחד אבל הנה הם בכל זאת.
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”
He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself.
His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.
— Spartan Kel, “Honing the Ki” (Flexibilty)
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”
Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort.
Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present.
Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand.
And never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death.
— Col. Corazon Santiago, “Planet: A Survivalist’s Guide”
You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried so young among the aeons.
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 to invigorate a complacent world, you earthhumans, or an insidious cancer which must be excised?
— Lady Deirdre Skye, “Conversations With Planet”
“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 solipsism?”
— Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
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שווים ביותר. תביא עוד.
אני במיוחד אוהב את השני, הרביעי (שאת נכונותו את יכולה לשפוט בעצמך) והאחרון.
יש לי קובץ ציטוטים מאוד גדול ותוכנה שמטפלת בו. אני פשוט לא זוכר להשתמש בו.