Age Quote by Jerry Pournelle Download Open image “The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.” — Jerry Pournelle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Dark Dark ages Definitions Investing Remember
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 Copy Share Image
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined,… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
