James Alan Gardner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.
-- James Alan Gardner

#People #Strange #Feels
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.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Leadership #Stupid #Play
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Order #Bullshit #Weight
Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Choices #Sacred #Hydrogen
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Adventure #Safety #Comatose
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?
-- James Alan Gardner

#Beautiful #Wise #Strong
You donâ€™t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Running #Weight #Increase
I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Eerie #Luck #Made
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.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Hurt #Mistake #People
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.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Numbers #People #Poop
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?
-- James Alan Gardner

#Reality #Thinking #Firsts
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.
-- James Alan Gardner

#Glasses #Toxic #Half

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