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With what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.
— Jerry Pournelle
That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.
— Jerry Pournelle
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
— Saint Augustine
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
— Jerry Pournelle
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
— Jerry Pournelle
87% of life is just showing up.
— Jennifer R. Pournelle
What man has done, man can aspire to do.
— Jerry Pournelle
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
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.
— Jerry Pournelle
Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.
— Jerry Pournelle
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
— Jerry Pournelle
Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;
— Alexis De Tocqueville
But nobody had ever gone over the top shouting 'A Higher Standard of Living!' or 'Hot Showers and Electric Razors!
— Jerry Pournelle
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
— Jerry Pournelle
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
— Jerry Pournelle
Everything takes longer and costs more.
— Jerry Pournelle
One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.
— Jerry Pournelle
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.
— Jerry Pournelle
References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual
— Dan Brown
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
— Jerry Pournelle
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
— Jerry Pournelle