James Alan Gardner
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.Collection: Letting Go
Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.Collection: Choices
You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Numbers
Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.Collection: Vacuums
I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.Collection: Eerie
Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.Collection: Worry
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.Collection: Glasses
That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.Collection: Leadership
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.Collection: Order
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.Collection: Adventure
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?Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Hurt
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?Collection: Reality
It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.Collection: People