"You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen."

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Poul Anderson

#Becoming Quotes

“I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.”
“University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.”
“It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.”
“Life is the soul's nursery.”
“I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.”
“The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”
“I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.”

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