Quotes by Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle

…with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

Iraq

Oil

Space

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

Dark

Keys

Real

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn’t it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

Names

Smart

War

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 neither entertaining nor great literature.

Literature

Reason

Stuff

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 suggest where to go.

Editors

Giving

Lunch

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed – but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law.

Government

Mean

School

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, they would have done it. It’s not like they’re a bunch of idiots.

Done

People

Stupid

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Burning

Investing

Progressive

Everything takes longer and costs more.

Cost

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Equal

Free Man

Men

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Action

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Arrogant

Aspire

Believe

Building

Burning

Children

Cities

Coffee

Comeback

Cooking

Cost

Dark

Desire

Differences

Different

Doe

Done

Editors

Eggs

Election

Epic

Equal

Errors

Ethical

Faces

Fear

Fighting

Free Man

Fundamentals

Giving

Glitches

Goal

Government

High Prices

Home

Importance

Information

Investing

Iraq

Keys

Kings

Knowing

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Quotes by Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle

…with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn’t it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

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 neither entertaining nor great literature.

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 suggest where to go.

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, they would have done it. It’s not like they’re a bunch of idiots.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

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