-> ''"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"''
-->-- '''''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition]]''''', "Fighting a Close Combat"

-> ''"The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious."''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

-> ''"Shall we ask for a better quality of door so we can escape?"''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

-> ''"That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!"''
-->-- '''Snidley Whiplash''', ''Dudley Do-Right''

-> ''"The more complex a weapon, the more likely it is to have flaws. Kan Pojo was the best pistoleer I ever saw, then or since, but he was waxed by what was essentially a whittled rock when his state-of-the-art weapon failed."''
-->-- '''Admiral Helaw''', ''Literature/DeathStar''

-> ''"Basically, it comes down to morale," '''[Cordelia Ransom]''' said. "I'm not going to suggest that morale can overcome enormous material odds. All the courage and determination in the universe won't mystically enable a mob armed with rocks to overcome trained infantry in [[PoweredArmor battle armor]], and you wouldn't believe me if I told you it could, now would you?"''
-->-- ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]''

-> ''"The [[BigGood Asgard]] have tried to stop [[[GreyGoo the Replicators]]]. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking."''
--> ''(later)''
-> ''"The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur. ... We cannot think like you."''
-->-- '''Thor''', "Small Victories," ''Series/StargateSG1''

-> ''"GPS satellites? Unmanned drones? [[MemeticMutation Fucking laser sights]]? The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under ya. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that a six-inch blade never loses reception."''
-->-- '''Thatcher''', ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege''

-> ''"The Ewoks... that discerning fans hated because there's [[SarcasmMode no way]] the mighty Empire would struggle against a smaller, poorly armed force. What do you think this is?! Vietnam?! Afghanistan?! Little Bighorn?! The American Revolution?! The Maori?! Ethiopia?! Afghanistan, again?!"''
-->-- ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''

->''"A man with a sixteen-inch naval rifle is so apt to forget that someone with a stone axe can kill him just as dead...and that it's human thought, not weapons, that ultimately determine wars..."''
-->-- '''Poul Anderson''', ''[[https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/pictures/images13/asf196008127.jpg The High Crusade]]''
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