Best Quote by Jerry Pournelle

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

— Jerry Pournelle

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on…

— Jerry Pournelle

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers…

— Jerry Pournelle

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

— Jerry Pournelle

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people…

— Jerry Pournelle

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the…

— Jerry Pournelle

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything…

— Jerry Pournelle

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so…

— Jerry Pournelle

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a…

— Jerry Pournelle

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…

— Jerry Pournelle

“Funny thing about this world,” Adams said carefully. “Legally, a sovereign government can protect its interests pretty well as long as it doesn’t start…

— Jerry Pournelle

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the…

— Jerry Pournelle