B.V. Larson > Quotes

“I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.”
― B.V. Larson, Extinction

“The fans are on, let's see which way the shit blows.”
― B.V. Larson, Conquest

“What programmer didn’t live with a deadline over his head?”
― B.V. Larson, Battle Station

“you don’t win wars by dying for your country. You win by making the other poor bastard die for his country.”
― B. V. Larson, Earth Fleet

“People who can convince themselves their crap is reality are very persuasive.”
― B.V. Larson, Machine World

“I’d learned over time that engineers preferred a straightforward question with a quantifiable answer. Open-ended designing, on the other hand, was the realm of programmers.”
― B.V. Larson, The Dead Sun

“Alliances are always forged in the fires of necessity, rather than poured from the sweet wine of love.”
― B.V. Larson, Swarm

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a problem until you got to that answer. In programming, there were an infinite number of answers that could be considered correct, just as there might be when writing a book. But the results of programming, unlike a written story, were tangible. Your program had to actually do something.”
― B.V. Larson, Rebellion

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
― B.V. Larson, Outcast

“Like many women who are attracted to brave, dangerous guys, she’d finally landed one. The trouble was, the moment she had me, she wanted to change the very behavior that made her want to mate with me in the first place.”
― B.V. Larson, The Dead Sun

“Never apologize for struggling with an enemy who attacks you,” she said, almost as if she was quoting a proverb. “That is the path to slavery.”
― B.V. Larson, Dust World

“They’d taken a hard look under my hood, and they’d promptly slammed it back down again, shuddering.”
― B.V. Larson, Home World

“I’m not getting permed for anyone.” That was Carlos in a nutshell. He’d die for you—but not permanently. His loyalty had its limits.”
― B.V. Larson, Dust World

“This woman suspected everyone of skullduggery just because she was so good at it herself.”
― B.V. Larson, Machine World

“McGill,” Leeson said in a lowered tone. “I’m asking for your expert advice, here. How do I disobey a direct order from my superior and get away with it?”
― B.V. Larson, Death World

“But a man like me knows the first rule of being a liar. The insurmountable, overriding truth about all lies: Once you’d aired them, you were stuck with them. You had to back them up and never, never admit you were full of grade-A bullshit.”
― B.V. Larson, Home World

“He was as slippery as a snake oil salad.”
― B.V. Larson, Blood World

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
― B.V. Larson, Annihilation

“We thought it would be better this time, but it was just a newer version of the same old thing.”
― B.V. Larson, Black Phoenix

“The more mankind learns, the less he becomes. There’s always one more technology, one more scientific advance that promises to fix our lives, but none of that matters without the people we love.”
― B.V. Larson, Exile

“No human trapped on Earth has ever really seen the stars. Our atmosphere is like a foggy lens between the natural beauty of the universe and our seeking eyes. In space they are perfect, like jewels shimmering with icy light.”
― B.V. Larson, Storm Assault

“I’d move heaven and Earth to bring her back to me and hold her in my arms and kiss her once again. To have her lie beside me in my bed and wake up next to me in the morning…”
― B.V. Larson, Exile

“Most of the computers were dead, too. They couldn’t take high levels of radiation any more than humans could.”
― B.V. Larson, Starfire

“Who’s worse? The devil who abuses you honestly, or the one who convinces you he’s your best friend first?”
― B.V. Larson, Alpha Fleet

“Perform all your questionable deeds at midnight, McGill. Do them all at once, as fast as you can.”
― B.V. Larson, Death World

“Do not fear an army of lions led by a sheep. Fear an army of sheep led by a lion.” —Alexander the Great, 326 BC”
― B. V. Larson, Clone World

“Well, conmen are like that. A huckster is often a sucker for another huckster. I think they’re people who get swept up in the moment. People who can convince themselves their crap is reality are very persuasive. They’re also more likely to be swayed by the persuasiveness of another. They’re people who get excited about things, and when they meet another of their own kind they like it.”
― B.V. Larson, Machine World

“Morale and discipline are much easier to maintain when people have almost supernatural faith in you.”
― B.V. Larson, Storm Assault

“Politics must drive military strategy as strategy drives tactics. Only when politics fail do we fight.”
― B.V. Larson, Outcast

“When it came to women, I supposed one must take the good with the bad.”
― B.V. Larson, The Dead Sun