“We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”
Jerry Pournelle“We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.”
Jerry Pournelle“Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?""The American Revolution?""A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve tables of the law and put them where everyone could see them -- thereby proclaimed the law supreme over the politicians. The rule of law is the essence of freedom.”
Jerry Pournelle, The Prince“We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”
Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye