Jerry Pournelle Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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BestRulesWhyReasonChangedSome

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Michael Hayden

TruthPoliticsIntelligenceCriticism

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

Steve Earle

MusicTimeCareLongCountry

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

Sri Chinmoy

GodGraceImpossibleYouDepend

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

LightDayWordsBaseballBlameGame

I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?

Lois Frankel

ChildrenI AmBudgetWhyOutTake

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Dennis Potter

AgeTalentAwareBeenHad

There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.

Des Browne

HistoryPeopleYesterdayNewMore

To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.

Doug Ducey

GoodThinkSayPolicyGoingChief

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Donald Norman

ImprovementMeSweetAnalysisError

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

Cindy Margolis

PastFashionLongBeingWholeStuck

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

Allen Ginsberg

BeautifulYourselfGenerationIdiot

I hate auditioning so much.

Allison Janney

HateMuchAuditioning

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