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"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"
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, Doctor Who

"Shall we ask for a better quality of door so we can escape?"
The Doctor, Doctor Who

"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, Death Star

"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 battle armor, and you wouldn't believe me if I told you it could, now would you?"

"The Asgard have tried to stop [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," Stargate SG-1

"GPS satellites? Unmanned drones? 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, Rainbow Six Siege

"The Ewoks... that discerning fans hated because there's 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?!"

"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, The High Crusade

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