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Quotes from The Engines of God — Jack McDevitt

born 1935 United States

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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

The Engines of God (1994)

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

The Engines of God (1994)

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

The Engines of God (1994)

He objected on principle to the powerful.

The Engines of God (1994)

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The Engines of God (1994)

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

The Engines of God (1994)

Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.

The Engines of God (1994)

Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

The Engines of God (1994)

Attribution

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