Category Archives: Quotes

“Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.” The guy who said that was a sergeant who didn’t look five years older than me. So if he’d ever killed a man in combat, silently or … Continue reading →

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. –Jerry Pournelle (with Larry Niven), Lucifer’s Hammer Send to Kindle

I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal … Continue reading →

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it … Continue reading →

Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good … Continue reading →

No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole. –Ursula K. LeGuin, Four Ways to Forgiveness … Continue reading →

“I’m accusing you of violating the laws of nature,” he said, irritated at my failure to respond. “Nature’s virtue is intact,” I reassured him. “I just know some different laws.” Dialog between Lord Barton and Lanik Mueller, after the latter … Continue reading →