History Quotes / ButterflyOfDoom

-->--''The Boredom of [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi]]''

Return to the ButterflyOfDoom here, but DON'T... ''TOUCH''... '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis ANYTHING!]]'''''
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-->--'''Benjamin Button''': ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''

-->--'''Professor Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ("Roswell That Ends Well")

-->--'''Professor Membrane,''' ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' ("Big Bad Rubber Piggy")

-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravelers The Time Travellers]]''

-->-- '''Creator/RyanNorth''', ''[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/ B to the F: The Novelization of Back To The Future]]''

'''The Doctor''': Of course we can. Why not?\\

'''The Doctor''': Then don't step on any butterflies. What have the butterflies ever done to you?

'''The Doctor''': Rules?\\

'''The Doctor''': Definitely. I mean, that's what happened to Pete.\\

'''The Doctor''': Your friend, Pete. He was standing there a moment ago, but he stepped on a butterfly and now you don't even remember him.\\

'''The Doctor''': Yeah, so was Pete.\\

'''The Doctor''': Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is to stop worrying about it.

--> -- '''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]]''', Episode 19

->"It's called the Butterfly Effect. You step on a Butterfly, and a year later three million people end up dead."

-> Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat, went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it, talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot. When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently. If that shoelace hadn't broken, or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier, or that package had been wrapped and ready because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend, or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier, or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee, or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.

-> "Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to, in which case, for the love of God, don't ''not'' do it!"

-> "So, despite the temptation, altering the timeline is more foolish than productive. Anybody who would built a space-time object replacement device is a complete '''[[PowerEchoes moron.]]'''"

->''"Once more, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the wheels of suffering are set in motion by my hand]]. By [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin taking Kaileena from the Island of Time]], I've changed the course of history. Without the Sands of Time, I never [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime journeyed to Asad, never killed the Vizier]]. Now he [[BackFromTheDead lives again]], driven by [[AmbitionIsEvil the same]] [[AGodAmI mad]] [[ImmortalitySeeker desire]]."''

->"Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion. Of course maybe our theory is wrong. Maybe Time can't be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far­-flung countries. Something much more subtle, like that. Perhaps only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, pollen on the air, such a slight, slight change that unless you looked close you wouldn't see it. Who knows? Who really can say he knows? We don't know. We're guessing. But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a big roar or a little rustle in history, we're being careful."

->'''Pearl:''' Nah. I'd only make good changes. Like giving cellphones to cavesquids.

->''"Once more, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the wheels of suffering are set in motion by my hand]]. By [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin taking Kaileena from the Island of Time]], I've changed the course of history. Without the Sands of Time, I never [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime journeyed to Asad, never killed the Vizier]]. Now he [[BackFromTheDead lives again]], driven by [[AmbitionIsEvil the same]] [[AGodAmI mad]] [[ImmortalitySeeker desire]]."

'''Gypsy:''' Changing the past ''always'' turns the future into a nuclear wasteland. It just ''does'', okay?\\
-->--''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravelers The Time Travellers]]''

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-->--''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravellers The Time Travellers]]''

-->--'''Benjamin Button''': ''{{The Curious Case of Benjamin Button}}''

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-->'''Creator/RyanNorth''', ''[[http://btothef.tumblr.com/ B to the F: The Novelization of Back To The Future]]''

->'''Kyon''': Hey, Nagato. Could you make it rain on the day of the game? A huge one that'll cancel the game.
->'''Nagato''': It is possible. However, it is not recommended.
->'''Kyon''': Why's that?
->'''Nagato''': Alterations to the local environmental data may result in aftereffects on this planet's ecosystem.
->'''Kyon''': How long before these aftereffects show up?
->'''Nagato''': Between a few centuries and ten millennia.
->'''Kyon''': Then I guess we probably shouldn't.
->'''Nagato''': Yes.

->'''Cassie''': Why can't you second-guess history? I mean, if you ''could'' go back and change things so that the U.S. was ready to fight earlier ''[in WorldWarII]''...\\

-->--''The Boredom of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiyaSuzumiyaHaruhi''

--> -- ''BeingErica''

-->--''The Boredom of SuzumiyaHaruhi''

'''Dr. Tom''': I love that movie.\\

-->--'''Professor Farnsworth''', ''{{Futurama}}'' ("Roswell That Ends Well")

Return to the ButterflyOfDoom here, but DON'T... ''TOUCH''... '''''[[ThisIsSparta ANYTHING!]]'''''

--> -- ''{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 134

--> -- ''{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 161

--> -- ''DoctorWho'', "The Shakespeare Code"

'''Rachel''': ''[laughs]'' Because wherever it is that the Ellimist exists, and whatever he's up to, and whatever game he's playing, and no matter how mighty he is, he has butterflies, too.