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Quotes from When HARLIE Was One — David Gerrold

born 1944 United States

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There isn’t a tool built that can’t be used as a weapon.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Not that he was jealous of the machine—but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master.
Love.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Ah well—the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

shadows of night and reflections of light
shiver and quiver and churn,
for the searching of soul that never can hurt
is the fire that never can burn.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

love is a sharing of a mutual delusion.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

maybe that’s all love really is—friendship plus sex—and we get confused thinking that it should be more, and because we want it to be more, we start believing that it really is more.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

i do not question your sincerity—if anything, i object to your questioning the sincerity of other religions.
i am not questioning their sincerity. i am questioning their validity.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

“You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Gerrold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.