David Poyer > Quotes

“That was how long ago?”
― David Poyer

“Not that he cared. He’d given up ambition long ago. No, he was here because he wanted to be, and because the Navy, once in a long while, needed someone who cared more about being right than being an admiral.”
― David Poyer, The Gulf

“Greg Bear, Alan Dean Foster, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle.”
― David Poyer, Korea Strait

“Boscow squinted. “We’ve played around on paper. Penn State, the Applied Research Lab, I mean. Wire guidance, or fiber optic, but there’s that fucking jet back there.”
― David Poyer, The Weapon

“Too often, the peacetime Navy bred overcautious, unimaginative careerists, officers and chiefs more concerned with promotions and benefits than with their men or their profession.”
― David Poyer, The Gulf

“like a grinning tick, explaining”
― David Poyer, The Gulf

“Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene”
― David Poyer, The Weapon

“It is said that God left the northernmost point of the earth unfinished; for, He said, “Whosoever professes he is equal to Me, let him come and complete this land, which I have left unfinished; thus will all know he is My equal.” —The Talmud I POSTWAR”
― David Poyer, Korea Strait