Algis Budrys Quotes
1931–2008 Lithuania
Algis Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
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59 quotes
Engineers do not particularly like PR men.
Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.
The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.
It’s good for us; hot breath on your heels is what keeps you on your toes.
The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.
Loss of dignity is after all one of the basics to a good punchy gag.
There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.
Man, is it wrong to miss being young and sure of yourself?
Cars seemed to me to speak more clearly of Earth than any single thing else.
Only gods and television audiences see the pattern of human events.
I’m just an information processor like any other living thing.
Charging back and forth isn’t progress. Small but steady forward motion is.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Algis Budrys (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.