"Is this gun smarter than me?"
— The Postal Dude, picking up the Not-So-Smart Pistol MK420, Postal: Brain Damaged
Avon: Impressive. It seemed to aim itself. I felt it pulling my hand around to the target.
Mellanby: The weapon has programmable memory. You preset an image of the target, and it automatically lines up on it.
— Blake's 7, "Aftermath"
"No smart weapons!" cried Proton. Albert Einstein had once said that regardless of what weapons were used to fight the next world war, the following war would be fought with sticks and stones. His prediction turned out to be unerringly true — as armies became equipped with weapons so intelligent they negotiated their own truce, and the opposing soldiers had to resort to bashing each other with the nearest blunt object.