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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

— Jerry Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer (1985)

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If there aren't any whaling ships, then whales may survive. Anything short of that is so much hot air.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

I thought MAD was truly insane when we first adopted it, and I haven't changed my opinion.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Lucifer's Hammer (1985)

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

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