James Alan Gardner Quotes
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.
I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.
It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?
Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.
That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.
Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.
You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.
Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.
If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".