75 Quotes by Jerry Pournelle

The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.