Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do.… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong.… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.” — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
