Other people’s jobs always seemed easier than yours until you actually had to do them.
Quotes from Starfire — Charles Sheffield
1935–2002 England
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Engineers are dangerous because they’re obsessed by facts and you can’t divert them or buy them off.
Starfire (1999)
Starfire (1999)
An old axiom: when you are totally confused, don’t make things worse by talking.
Starfire (1999)
When you have died once, you become most reluctant to do so again.
Starfire (1999)
If you tried really hard, you could take that as a compliment.
Starfire (1999)
The limits we assign to Nature sometimes define our own lack of imagination.
Starfire (1999)
The bad thing about being a world-class worrier was that being right was worse than being wrong.
Starfire (1999)
Humans were inexplicable only if you assumed that they were logical.
Starfire (1999)
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“D’you know what homeostasis is?”
“I used to, before I rotted my brain with politics.”
Starfire (1999)
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Sheffield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.