Jerry Pournelle Quotes

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• Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired.…
• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
• In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy…
• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind,…
• Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
• Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
• And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is…
• Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it,…
• What man has done, man can aspire to do.
• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would…
• I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes…
• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material.…
• That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.
• And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor…
• Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there…
• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now,…
• I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
• In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
• We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
• Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

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