James Blish Quotes

“[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.”

“[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was the making of increasingly finer distinctions. The outcome was an endless series of theoretical catastrophes.”

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

“James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.”

“Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.”

“Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.”

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz”

“Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies.James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep."James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”