Spaceship:Opening Quotations

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Interactive fiction titles often start with a quote inside a box, something that fits the mood or genre of the game. For instance, Lovecraftian gothic horror title Anchorhead starts with a quote from H.P.Lovecraft himself.

[edit] Opening Quotations

"Interactive fiction titles often start with a quote inside a box, something that fits the mood or genre of the game. For instance, Lovecraftian gothic horror title Anchorhead starts with a quote from H.P.Lovecraft himself." -- Opening Quotations Article on the Wiki

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -- H.P.Lovecraft

A game's opening needn't be restricted to a single quote though. We can have a whole list of quotes which will be displayed randomly to the player on starting the game. If you have any ideas for interesting quotes that fit with the context of our game and project, then add them below.

For example, here's a quote that stuck in my head that reminds me of the Wikigame philosophy.

"There is seldom so much perfection in works composed of many separate parts, upon which different hands had been employed, as in those completed by a single master." -- Rene Descartes

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams

"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." -- Werner von Braun

"Many hands make light work." -- Proverbial

"I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." -— Neil Armstrong

"To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more?" -— Yuri Gagarin

"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." -— Alan Shepherd

"Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement." -- Red Hot Chili Peppers

"I do not pretend to understand the universe. It's a great deal bigger than I am." -- Tom Stoppard