Charles Sheffield quotes - page 2

Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time. (Charles Sheffield)
I do not like to concatenate implausibilities. View quote
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As you will one day discover, a leader is not a leader because of the way that he or she behaves. He is a leader only because of the way that he is treated by others. View quote
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If you wanted to get yourself killed, there was no better way than to think you knew all the tricks. It took experience to make you realize that the universe could always pull another one out of the bag and throw it at you. View quote
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When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep. View quote
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Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death. View quote
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When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions. View quote
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One form of insanity bears the name curiosity. View quote
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Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That's why it's trouble. View quote
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Science wasn't a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause. View quote
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Theories were a dime a dozen. The partition that separated science and wishful thinking was evidence: observations and firm facts. (Charles Sheffield)
What I found was worse than diversity-it was insanity. View quote
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But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data. View quote
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If you win too easy, better ask what's going on that you don't know about. View quote
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Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all. View quote
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Don't confuse caution with cowardice. View quote
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