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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games

by Sid Meier

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“You’ll slip up, just like everyone else who tries to mess with the British Empire. They all get it wrong somehow – forget some detail, make some tiny error, invade Russia – and then it’s all downhill from there.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

tags: humour

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“People get the wrong idea. I blame science-fiction writers, personally. It annoys me how they confuse the whole robot issue. I tell you, if I met that Asimov bloke, I’d harm him, or at least through inaction allow him to come to harm.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

tags: humour, robots

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“[Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.”
― Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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“Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

tags: humour, satire

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