History Quotes / TurnOfTheMillennium

--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-that-werent-always-this-terrible_p2/ "4 Things That Weren't Always This Terrible"]]

-- '''''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''''', dossier on the [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake Zanzibar Lane]] disturbance

->''"[[{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to [[BunnyEarsLawyer be told not to wear socks with sandals.]]"''\\

->''"The public has been lied to, Mr. Kreese. Told all their lives they can have the good life, but no one ever gets it. Every year, they work a little longer, and their house is worth a little less, their retirement fund gets a little smaller. And when the people get upset, they start [[TorchesAndPitchforks looking for someone to blame.]]"''
-->--'''Rockwell''', ''{{Series/Leverage}}'' ("The 10-Minute Job")

->''"SelfDemonstratingArticle/TheJoker's a special case. Some of us feel he may be ''beyond'' treatment. In fact, we're not even sure if he can be properly defined as insane... It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception. More suited to [[CrapsackWorld urban life in the twenty-first century.]]"''\\

->''"The most obvious way to make money from [=Y2K=] was to write a terrible book in the [[TheNineties late nineties]] about how to survive Y2K...Society was literally months away from collapsing and this asshole wanted us to weasel money out of the paranoid? What [[EvilIsPetty needless villainy]]. That's like [[Film/ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]] calling the people of Alderaan and taking pre-orders on discount rape whistles."''\\\
'''Tarkin:''' Okay, you didn't hear this from me, but put all your money into {{death ray}} insurance.\\
--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-real-survival-guides-one-very-fake-apocalypse/ "10 Real Survival Guides For One Very Fake Apocalypse"]]

Because the world's a [[CrapsackWorld TERRIBLE place]]!''
-->-- '''Joe Cornish''', ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhIJ19Rv3H4 the parody song]].

->''"...twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression without]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII taking us]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar with them]]."''\\

I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck"''
-->--'''Music/TheSmiths''', "Frankly, Mr. Shankly"

->''"SelfDemonstratingArticle/TheJoker's a special case. Some of us feel he may be ''beyond'' treatment. In fact, we're not even sure if he can be properly defined as insane... It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception. More suited to [[CrapsackWorld urban life in the twenty-first century.]]"''
-->--'''Dr. Ruth Adams''', ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''

->''"SelfDemonstratingArticle/TheJoker's a special case. Some of us feel he may be ''beyond'' treatment. In fact, we're not even sure if he can be properly defined as insane... It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception. More suited to urban [[CrapsackWorld life in the twenty-first century.]]"''

->''"...twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[WorldWarII without]] [[ColdWar taking us]] [[VietnamWar with them]]."''\\

->''“I came of age in {{the Sixties}}, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school -- to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies -- they’ve come up with an appropriate response to this, which is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground.”'''\\

->''“I came of age in {{the Sixties}}, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school -- to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies -- they’ve come up with an appropriate response to this, which is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground.”'''
-->--'''Martin Amis''', ''Money''

->''"I find it highly fitting that we meet on the old [[{{Pun}} fairground]] as twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[WorldWarII without]] [[ColdWar taking us]] [[VietnamWar with them]]."''\\

->''"I find it highly fitting that we meet on the old [[{{Pun}} fairground]] as twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[WorldWarII without]] [[ColdWar taking us]] [[VietnamWar with them]]."''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Vanity Fair'', 1999

--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Phil Sandifer]]''

->''"Near future prediction is always a rough game... Hence ''{{Film/2010}}''[=’s=] amusing double error - the belief that humanity would be on the verge of going to Jupiter and the belief that [[SpaceColdWar the Cold War would be rumbling on.]] Instead the American space program spent 2010 winding down, each of the three surviving Shuttles making their penultimate flights. The Cold War is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror. Time memorably spent the tail end of 2009 declaring the aughts to have been the “worst decade ever,” and while this should be taken [[WorstWhateverEver as Comic Book Guy style hyperbole with periods after every word]], the case was compelling enough. A decade long war on terror culminated in a massive financial crash and the growing realization that electing [[BarackObama a black dude President of the United States]] was not actually going to fix everything."''\\

->''"Two thousand zero zero party over. Oops out of time."''
-->-- '''Music/{{Prince}}''', "1999"