History Quotes / TheEngineer

-->-- ''Caption from a Bill Mauldin cartoon in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.''

->Are you the Corps of Engineers, the guys who build the runways the planes land on?
->Hell no! We're the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee Seabees!]] [[BadassBoast We build the roads the Japs retreat on!]]
-->-- '''Creator/BobHope''' and a US Navy combat engineer

--> -- '''Keevan''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Rocks and Shoals")

->''"Whenever I start complaining about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''[='s=] challenge peaking at Act Three, Balk [[WakeupCallBoss always appears to shut me up]]. He's not terribly important to the story -- just another proletarian activist/machinist aligned with the templars -- but dealing with him in battle is a pain in the ass. He's fast. He has innate support abilities that make it [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules so your attacks never seem to do as much damage as they should]]. He always comes packing [[AbnormalAmmo some horrible magic-shooting gun]]... And he always makes sure [[CombatPragmatist you're coming into the fight at a disadvantage]]. The first time you meet him, he poisons everyone on your team before the battle even starts, [[IHaveTheHighGround then snipes at you from behind a wall of knights and archers]]. When he challenges you to a rematch later on, he blasts at you from an advantageous position, sics some of the most powerful monsters in the game on you (those fucking hydras), and keeps a Chemist around to help shoot at you and toss recovery/resurrection items at the dragons. If you want a warrior's job done right, it sometimes takes a scientist."''

-->-- ''Caption from a Bill Mauldin cartoon in WorldWarII.''

->''"Whenever I start complaining about ''FinalFantasyTactics''[='s=] challenge peaking at Act Three, Balk [[WakeupCallBoss always appears to shut me up]]. He's not terribly important to the story -- just another proletarian activist/machinist aligned with the templars -- but dealing with him in battle is a pain in the ass. He's fast. He has innate support abilities that make it [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules so your attacks never seem to do as much damage as they should]]. He always comes packing [[AbnormalAmmo some horrible magic-shooting gun]]... And he always makes sure [[CombatPragmatist you're coming into the fight at a disadvantage]]. The first time you meet him, he poisons everyone on your team before the battle even starts, [[IHaveTheHighGround then snipes at you from behind a wall of knights and archers]]. When he challenges you to a rematch later on, he blasts at you from an advantageous position, sics some of the most powerful monsters in the game on you (those fucking hydras), and keeps a Chemist around to help shoot at you and toss recovery/resurrection items at the dragons. If you want a warrior's job done right, it sometimes takes a scientist."''

->''"Whenever I start complaining about ''FinalFantasyTactics''[='s=] challenge peaking at Act Three, Balk [[WakeupCallBoss always appears to shut me up]]. He's not terribly important to the story -- just another proletarian activist/machinist aligned with the templars -- but dealing with him in battle is a pain in the ass. He's fast. He has innate support abilities that make it [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules so your attacks never seem to do as much damage as they should]]. He always comes packing [[{{Magitek}} some horrible magic-shooting gun]]... And he always makes sure [[CombatPragmatist you're coming into the fight at a disadvantage]]. The first time you meet him, he poisons everyone on your team before the battle even starts, [[IHaveTheHighGround then snipes at you from behind a wall of knights and archers]]. When he challenges you to a rematch later on, he blasts at you from an advantageous position, sics some of the most powerful monsters in the game on you (those fucking hydras), and keeps a Chemist around to help shoot at you and toss recovery/resurrection items at the dragons. If you want a warrior's job done right, it sometimes takes a scientist."''

-''>When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, \\

->"Yessir--Ol' B Comp'ny broke another bridge buildin' record. A kraut regiment is retreatin' across it."

->"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 [[MacGyvering turn rocks into replicators]]."

->When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
->("It's all one," says the Sapper),
->The Lord He created the Engineer,
->Her Majesty's Royal Engineer,
->With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
-->-- '''[[http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1861.html Sappers]]''', Creator/RudyardKipling

-->-- '''Creator/BobHope'' and a US Navy combat engineer

--> -- '''Keevan''', ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Rocks and Shoals")

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->''"Hey look, buddy, I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like 'what is beauty?', because that would [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy]]. I solve [[MrFixit practical problems]]. For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer... use a gun. And if that don't work, [[MoreDakka use more gun.]] Like this heavy caliber, tripod-mounted little old number designed by me. Built by me. And you'd best hope... not pointed at you."''
-->-- '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Engineer]]''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYkuCZ2IYI Meet the Engineer]]''

* Caption from a Bill Mauldin cartoon in WorldWarII:
->"Yessir--Ol' B Comp'ny broke another bridge buildin' record. A kraut regiment is retreatin' across it."

-->-- '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Engineer]]''', ''TeamFortress2'', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYkuCZ2IYI Meet the Engineer]]''

-->-- '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Engineer]]''', ''TeamFortress2'', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYkuCZ2IYI Meet the Engineer]]''