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23 quotes by Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (born August 7, 1933) is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973. Pournelle had a minor stroke December 16, 2014, and is recovering well at a local hospital.
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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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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... →

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The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an... →

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We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to... →

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The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in... →

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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... →

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One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's... →

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There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were... →

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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

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Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

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