History Quotes / GadgeteerGenius

->'''Scientist''': All right, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible.\\
'''Obadiah Stane''': [[SuddenlyShouting TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO]] [[MemeticMutation BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]\\
'''Scientist''': Well... I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.
-->-- ''Film/IronMan''

'''Tenth Doctor:''' It's a machine that goes... ding. ''[device dings]'' It lights up in the presence of alien DNA. Also it can microwave frozen dinners from up to twenty feet away and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop.

->"That's a [[SubspaceAnsible communications system]]. It needs repair, but I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators."
-->-- '''Keevan''', ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "Rocks and Shoals"

'''Dax:''' [[TechnoBabble I've never heard of a differential magnetomer.]] How does it work?\\

-->-- ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "Battle Lines"

->''[[Creator/EEDocSmith Smith]], to me, represents the last of a [[DeadHorseTrope valiant but doomed race]]--the writers of the ComicStrip/BuckRogers-Franchise/FlashGordon school. The time is fast disappearing--at least in the better science-fiction magazines--when the author, in a difficult situation, can, ''"--turn to his micro-ultra-philmeter, he rapidly tore out a dozen connections, spot-welded twenty-seven busbars, and converted the machine into an improved von Krockmeier hyperspace lever, which bent space like the blade of a rapier and hurtled him in a flash from hilt to point--"'' My apologies to Creator/TheodoreSturgeon for that quote.''

->'''Hank:''' ''(Sees Schematic on Wall)'' Is this our Grill?\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', '''[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS13E23JustAnotherManicKahnDay Just Another Manic Kahn-Day]]'''

->'''Q:''' We've installed some interesting modifications. You see this arm here? Open the top and inside are your defense mechanism controls. Smokescreen. Oil slick. Rear bulletproof screen. And left and right front wing machine guns. Now, this one I'm particularly keen on. You see the gear lever here. Now, if you take the top off, you find a little red button. Whatever you do, don't touch it.
->'''Film/JamesBond:''' And why not?
->'''Q:''' Because you release this section of the roof and engage and fire the passenger [[EjectionSeat ejector seat]]. Whoosh!
->'''Bond:''' Ejector seat? You're joking.
->'''Q:''' I never joke about my work, 007.

-->--'''Nightwing''' to '''Batman''', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''

-->'''Dax:''' The magnetic deflection of a runabout's hull is extremely weak. The probes will never be able to detect it.\\

'''Stane''': [[SuddenlyShouting TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO]] [[MemeticMutation BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]\\

-->-- Fan letter to ''Magazine/AstoundingStories'', Feb 1942

->"That's a communications system. It needs repair, but I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators."

->''[[Creator/EEDocSmith Smith]], to me, represents the last of a [[DeadHorseTrope valiant but doomed race]]--the writers of the BuckRogers-FlashGordon school. The time is fast disappearing--at least in the better science-fiction magazines--when the author, in a difficult situation, can, ''"--turn to his micro-ultra-philmeter, he rapidly tore out a dozen connections, spot-welded twenty-seven busbars, and converted the machine into an improved von Krockmeier hyperspace lever, which bent space like the blade of a rapier and hurtled him in a flash from hilt to point--"'' My apologies to Creator/TheodoreSturgeon for that quote.''

->''[[Creator/EEDocSmith Smith]], to me, represents the last of a valiant but doomed race — the writers of the Buck Rogers-Flash Gordon school. The time is fast disappearing — at least in the better science-fiction magazines--when the author, in a difficult situation, can, ''"--turn to his micro-ultra-philmeter, he rapidly tore out a dozen connections, spot-welded twenty-seven busbars, and converted the machine into an improved von Krockmeier hyperspace lever, which bent space like the blade of a rapier and hurtled him in a flash from hilt to point--"'' My apologies to Creator/TheodoreSturgeon for that quote.''

->''[[Creator/EEDocSmith Smith]], to me, represents the last of a valiant but doomed race — the writers of the Buck Rogers-Flash Gordon school. The time is fast disappearing — at least in the better science-fiction magazines--when the author, in a difficult situation, can, "--turn to his micro-ultra-philmeter, he rapidly tore out a dozen connections, spot-welded twenty-seven busbars, and converted the machine into an improved von Krockmeier hyperspace lever, which bent space like the blade of a rapier and hurtled him in a flash from hilt to point--" My apologies to Creator/TheodoreSturgeon for that quote.''

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho''

'''Stane''': [[LargeHam TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO]] [[MemeticMutation BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]\\

-->--''Film/IronMan''

-->--''Series/DoctorWho''

'''Scientist''': Well...I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.

'''Tenth Doctor:''' It's a machine that goes...ding. ''[device dings]'' It lights up in the presence of alien DNA. Also it can microwave frozen dinners from up to twenty feet away and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop.

->'''Scientist''': All right, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible.
->'''Stane''': [[LargeHam TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO]] [[MemeticMutation BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]
->'''Scientist''': Well, I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.
-->--'''Film/IronMan'''

->'''Scientist''': The technology simply does not exist.
->'''Stane''': Tony Stark [[MemeticMutation BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]
->'''Scientist''':....I'm not Tony Stark.

->'''Stane''': Tony Stark [[MemeticMutation BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]