The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
AARON ALLSTONThe difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.” “Crash.” “Quite slowly.” Face & Luke
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?
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Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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No, General. I’m not your subordinate. And what I’m coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
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There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them.
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Luke, I don’t want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.” Mara
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I don’t know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
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No, they can’t. They can’t be Luke Skywalker.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
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When all else fails, complicate matters
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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