25 Quotes by James Alan Gardner

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?