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Quotes from Cauldron — Jack McDevitt

born 1935 United States

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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.

Cauldron (2007)

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Cauldron (2007)

“It’s all PR,” said Hutchins. “If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.”

Cauldron (2007)

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Cauldron (2007)

“Technology is dangerous.”
“How do you mean?”
“It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

Cauldron (2007)

“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.”

Cauldron (2007)

The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

Cauldron (2007)

At night the sea is very loud,
And voices ride the tide.
At another time, in another place,
Beneath the silent moon,
We laughed together.

Cauldron (2007)

Technological civilizations don’t last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Cauldron (2007)

He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

Cauldron (2007)

Attribution

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