Jerry Pournelle Quotes

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 damn hard to make it look like the future.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017

Topics

FuturePeopleLookDamnHardBring

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

Jesse Williams

LifeEducationOpportunityFeelYou

Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth.

Andrew Yang

MoneyFinanceLegalHelpNewServe

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

Andy Dick

GodDaySpiritualFeelTalkingLost

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

GoodPeopleThoughtWhyAlways

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Shonda Rhimes

GoodPerspectivePeopleIdeasYou

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

JobFeelLongI CanWillSteam

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Rumi

PowerPresentDevilChoiceDesire

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

Jason Silva

ChangeFutureLookFastWayChanges

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Dick Cavett

DepressionSmallYouSayThings

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

Pratyusha Banerjee

LifeFriendsRealReal LifeConnect

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

Martha Stewart

GoodYouBornEvenBeforeThing

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Lennon Parham

ChangeThinkGrowYouKindSame

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