Charles Sheffield quotes

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith. (Charles Sheffield)
Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable. View quote
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No purpose is served by making private suffering into a public event. View quote
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Be an optimist! It's the only way to live. View quote
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What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries-but probably goes along with it. View quote
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That's what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results. View quote
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The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin. View quote
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Everyone was polite; no one was happy. View quote
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Mathematics is universal. But very little else is. View quote
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But mere plausibility did not make the statement true. View quote
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But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other. (Charles Sheffield)
And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well. View quote
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A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it. View quote
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It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference. View quote
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See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it's really interested in. View quote
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Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same. View quote
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When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information. View quote
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When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature. View quote
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To a political mind, everything is politics. View quote
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You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day. View quote
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War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer. (Charles Sheffield)
It's the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect. View quote
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That's a whole lot of ifs you got there. View quote
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You crazy? You've got me confused with a guy who cares about other people. View quote
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When you had little or no information, it was unreasonable to have any expectations. But somehow you did, even if they were often wrong. View quote
Charles Sheffield

Charles Sheffield

Occupation: Author
Quotes count: 41

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