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Technology	Quote 1	Quote 2
Pottery	“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” —Plutarch	“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.” —Janet Fitch
Animal Husbandry	“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” —Will Rogers	“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” —Winston S. Churchill
Mining	“Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?” —Merle Travis	“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” —Will Rogers
Sailing	“Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore.” —Benjamin Franklin	“It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” —Sir Francis Drake
Astrology	“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” —Arthur C. Clarke	“A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” —Hippocrates
Irrigation	“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
Archery	“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	“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
Masonry	“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 Working	“Bronze is the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.” —Aeschylus	“I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy… because civ 6 will last for thousands of years.” —Richard MacDonald
Wheel	“Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.” —Lorne Michaels	“Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” —Anthony D’Angelo
Celestial Navigation	“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
Currency	“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
Horseback Riding	“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
Iron Working	“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
Shipbuilding	“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
Mathematics	“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
Construction	“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
Engineering	“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
Military Tactics	“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.” —Saul Alinsky	“Strategy requires thought; tactics require observation.” —Max Euwe
Apprenticeship	“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
Stirrups	“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
Machinery	“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
Education	“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
Military Engineering	“Blast Build Battle” —Motto of the U.S.6th 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
Castles	“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
Cartography	“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a cartographer.” —John Quincy Adams	“Not all who wander are lost.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
Mass Production	“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
Banking	“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 ’24Hour Banking,’ but I didn’t have that much time.” —Steven Wright
Gunpowder	“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
Printing	“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
Square Rigging	“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	“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
Metal Casting	“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
Siege Tactics	“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
Industrialization	“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
Scientific Theory	“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
Ballistics	“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
Military Science	“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
Steam Power	“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
Sanitation	“00 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?” —Graham Chapman
Economics	“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
Rifling	“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.” —nd Target Company
Flight	“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
Replaceable Parts	“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
Steel	“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
Electricity	“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
Radio	“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	“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
Combustion	“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
Advanced Flight	“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
Rocketry	“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
Advanced Ballistics	“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
Combined Arms	“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.
Plastics	“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
Computers	“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
Nuclear Fission	“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
Synthetic Materials	“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
Telecommunications	“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
Satellites	“A satellite has no conscience.” —Edward R. Murrow	“Right now there are thirtyone satellites zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store.” —Ed Burnette
Guidance Systems	“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
Lasers	“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
Composites	“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
Stealth Technology	“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	“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.”
Nanotechnology	“If technology is the engine of change, then nanotechnology is the fuel for humanity’s future.” —Natasha VitaMore	“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
Nuclear Fusion	“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
Advanced AI	“Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?” —Mary Shelley
Advanced Power Cells	“The incomplete becomes complete; the crooked becomes straight; the empty becomes full; the worn out becomes new.” —Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Cybernetics	“If there is any work in the afterlife, you must do it. Behold me whenever you are called. Be watchful at any moment to work there. Plough my fields, carry water and sand to the east and west. Behold me whenever you are called.” —Inscription on an Egyptian Ushabti
Offworld Mission	“No, my friends, we have not fallen back upon the earth; no, nor are we submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes! we are mounting into space. See those stars shining in the night, and that impenetrable darkness heaped up between the earth and us!” —Jules Verne	“After eleven Days Passage in this violent Flight, I perceived we began to approach another Earth (if I may so call it) being the Globe or very Body of that Star which we call the Moon.” —Francis Godwin
Predictive Systems	“If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak.” —Sun Tzu
Seasteads	“I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;” —John Masefield	“Then you drive out where the storm-clouds swallow, And the sound of your oar-blades, falling hollow, As all we have left through the months to follow.” —Rudyard Kipling
Smart Materials	“It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and it again descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.” —Hermes Trismegistus
Future Tech	“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

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