History Quotes / AchievementsInIgnorance

''[[Manga/AttackOnTitan [=The Titan=]]] stopped only to take the new surroundings in, not knowing that simply by stepping out of that gate it had broken the fact of life in the United States that no hostile forces had managed to put boots on the ground in the nation in the past two hundred years.''

''[=[[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Titan]]=] stopped only to take the new surroundings in, not knowing that simply by stepping out of that gate it had broken the fact of life in the United States that no hostile forces had managed to put boots on the ground in the nation in the past two hundred years.''

''[=[[Anime/AttackOnTitan The Titan]]=] stopped only to take the new surroundings in, not knowing that simply by stepping out of that gate it had broken the fact of life in the United States that no hostile forces had managed to put boots on the ground in the nation in the past two hundred years.''

-->-- ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog''

->''But I've never flown before in my life, and it shows exactly what you can do, if you're a total psychotic!"''

'''Lelouche''': You did so bad, you ''owe'' points?

--> ''Literature/OctoberDaye'', ''Chimes at Midnight''

->Who knows? Even I don't know. Is what we see a different universe? The far future or the past? It could even be the bottomless anger that I hold within me. My power has surpassed even my understanding...

->The chance of success for this mission was 0%, but I can see theoretical calculations don't mean anything to you people.
-->-- The ''Kittan Zero''[='s=] computer, ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''

->Wait... give me a moment to process this. Are you telling me [[LoonyFan Conrad]] {{LARP}}'ed his way throughout the Terminus systems and inadvertently created a network for freelance mercenaries?

->But I've never flown before in my life, and it shows exactly what you can do, if you're a total psychotic!"

->The most dangerous opponent for a master is a novice. Therefore, seek to be a novice in all things\\

The heart of warfare is deception. Therefore, the general who can deceive even themselves is invincible.

->Dealing with a trained operative is like playing chess with a grandmaster. Dealing with criminals, on the other hand, is like playing checkers with a three-year-old: they like to change the rules.

->An amateur is infinitely more dangerous than a professional. If Alexander Graham Bell had been a professional electrician, he would never have invented the telephone - he would have known it was impossible!

->Let me guess, you've got a loosely formed idea that shouldn't work on paper but ultimately proves to be reasonably successful?

->Some of Joss' music is surprisingly complicated. Maybe it's a Beatles thing. He doesn't know enough to know what he can't do and he's smashing rules.

->It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

->Hmmm. Ok. Well... the bad news is that this is a scroll of Locate Creature - which is a completely useless spell in the current situation. The good news is that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

->I'm sure there will be even more changes before the endgame - things we can't even hope to predict now. And I'm just as sure that we'll get through them all. Not because we're destined, or chosen or fated or any of that clichéd heroic garbage. Nah. We'll get through because we're the ones who are too dumb to know when to quit. And let's face it: If idiocy becomes an asset in this fight, we'll all be unstoppable.

->[=McNoodlehead=], I am caught between loving this for how awesome it is and loving it for how completely ridiculous it is. You fought Angels without knowing you were fighting against the forces of a God, nonchalantly grabbed the prize that many people have never even caught a whiff of, all with the air of a giant Comedy of Errors show.

->You ''bumbled'' your way into what some people consider '''winning the game.'''

->Amazing.
-->-- '''[=TalonisWolf=]''' [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=162870.msg7368584#msg7368584 on the Bay12 forums]], discussing the [[NintendoHard infamously]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption difficult]] ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

->At its best, one of the things ''Series/DoctorWho'' has always been extraordinary at is making new mistakes. This is true on a very fundamental creative level, where even from the very beginning of the program you are forced to say things like, "well in their defense, resolving two weeks of sci-fi experimental theater with 'oh, bother, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction the switch was stuck]]' is not something I’ve ever seen done before," up through the days of "racism [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang}} and giant rats]], huh" and "holy fuck [[Creator/ColinBaker that coat]]" and at last to things like "wait, they lied to their brother and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS}} told him he was a robot?]]" This is terribly important, because if you don’t make new mistakes you’ll never discover that obvious mistakes like evil robot salt shakers, hiring [[Creator/TomBaker a construction worker]] dressed in a ludicrous scarf as your lead actor, [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol}} a giant fascist Bertie Bassett]], or a searing deconstruction of the normative [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} rape/revenge plots]] that dominate sci-fi media in the early 21st century that argues for a focus on women’s narrative and experiences are, in fact, brilliant and important ideas that the world would be a poorer place without.

->Weakness: Doesn't know what the hell he's doing. This is also his Strength.

->Ha! I was only pretending to be a genius.

->I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law.

->I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible!

->Are you kidding me? You do ''one'' awesome thing, and you can't even remember how you did it?!

->Anything is possible when you're too naïve to realize you're screwed.

->They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.

->'''Caesar''': That was incredible! How did you do that?[[note]]Successfully perform ''brain surgery'' without the necessary tools or medical expertise, but a LuckStat of 9.[[/note]]\\
'''The Courier''': ...I have no idea.

-->-- ''Code MENT''

-->-- '''LetsPlay/GrayStillPlays''' ''Popular Girls'', "[[https://youtu.be/u3pTbaqdSVI i became popular for all the wrong reasons]]"