Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelleis an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 August 1933
CountryUnited States of America
warrior cities people
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.
arrogant messages firsts
Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
writing rose sitting
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
coffee reading writing
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
oil iraq space
...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.
faces politics poor
Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.
fear eggs variables
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
mean thinking comeback
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
believe years cities
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
burning investing progressive
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
dark age definitions
The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.
war army way
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.
world information
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
cost
Everything takes longer and costs more.