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[Urist Mcinternetuser]

Does anybody know any quotes (from famous people) that relate to DF? I need one for my poetry class.

[Max White]

"Perfection is a state of mined"
~Some guy.

[FallingWhale]

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. - Albert Einstein
All hale Armok.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

Thanks for the quotes.
I've found these:

"He would make a lovely corpse"
     -Charles Dickens

"Write drunk; edit sober"
     -Ernest Hemingway

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial"
     -Irvin S. Cobb

Not very Dwarf Fortress related but I need to get working on this poem.
More quotes would be appreciated.

[Max White]

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
-- Terry, 'King of high fantasy' Pratchett

Want more? Try here.

[Ranzear]

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
- Terry Pratchett

Edit: Of COURSE Terry Pratchett!

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

I think I'm going to use this: "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories".
It's perfect because my poem has to be based on this http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179895 so I'm going to write it from the perspective of a Dwarf traveling to my favorite fort, which as you would assume died (triumphantly).

[FallingWhale]

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. - Thomas Jefferson

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. - Charles Darwin

Wars are not favorable to delicate pleasures. - J. R. Tolkien

[Lovechild]

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You will die like a dog for no good reason." - Ernest Hemingway

"All created things are impermanent." - Buddha

"Cleric: Does he have any distinguishing features?
Haley: Well...he's short.
Celia: He has a beard.
Haley: He wears heavy armor.
Cleric: Ummm, OK... how about any unusual personality traits?
Celia: He has an accent.
Haley: He likes beer.
Celia: And hates trees!
Haley: He worships Thor.
Cleric: Can you tell me anything about him that differentiates him from every other dwarf?"

- Order of the Stick, strip 602

[Nighthawk]

I saw this one posted somewhere...

"I think I made fish too hardcore."

-Toady One

[Bohandas]

In regard to tantrum spirals:

"Death feeds the cycle; Driven by Pure hate"

from the GWAR song Biledriver

[MonkeyHead]

"Now I have become the destroyer of worlds..." - Oppenhiemer, Mannhattan Project. Not quite an orbital magma cannon, but still shiny.

[Bohandas]

"Now I have become the destroyer of worlds..." - Oppenhiemer, Mannhattan Project. Not quite an orbital magma cannon, but still shiny.

And originally from the Bhagavad Gita (Ch.11 Verse 32)

Although I can't find the specific translation that Oppenheimer used.

[martinuzz]

That's one small stap for man, one giant leap for a dwarf.

- Urist Strongarm

[Beach Bum]

"Now I have become the destroyer of worlds..." - Oppenhiemer, Mannhattan Project. Not quite an orbital magma cannon, but still shiny.

I'm pretty sure the actual quote is, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The full line from the Bhagavad Gita he was recalling is: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."