"I say we start the American Revolution — a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!"
— Michael Stearns, 1632
Easy-peasy I'm sure. Just describe this technology that you don't understand to people who don't understand it and bam! Instant industrial revolution, why didn't anyone else think of that?
"You give them breech-loading guns now, they'll have atomic weapons by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it!"
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Time Warrior"
I have divulged metallurgy and tactics beyond your day; no man may threaten your rule.
— Van Kleiss to Emperor Septimus Severus, Generator Rex
"Here's where the game could have been somewhat educational... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for Julius Caesar, you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For Thomas Edison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For Jesse James, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, Vlad Tepes an atom bomb?"
— The Angry Video Game Nerd, on Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
