Timothy J. Gawne > Quotes

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― Timothy J. Gawne, The Chronicles of Old Guy

“Humans evolved out of pond scum, but it doesn’t mean that the humans have to be loyal to pond scum, or invite pond scum over for a beer.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“You will do it because you have to.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“If we want to keep talented and energetic workers, we will have to cut them in on the profits. Otherwise we will lose them to other enterprises. It’s all part of the program.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“remind you that people of talent and ability are not generally motivated to rule others. They have better things to do. It is only the second-rate that crave power, because that is the only way that they can achieve distinction.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“They strode forward confidently with the strident whining of their servo-motors accompanying them like marching music from some technological hell.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“The worst that could happen is that we all die. I think.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“May the spirit of John Maynard Keynes guide your plasma cannon.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“Nonetheless, keeping a warm protein soup alive in a freezing vacuum is not a simple task, and even redundant mechanical systems do fail.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“The casino of war. Compared to the billions of human deaths I suppose that it’s not much of a sacrifice, but it’s the loss of the ones you know personally that has the most impact. I will miss them.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors – Plato, 424-328 BC   Flattery”
― Timothy J. Gawne, Space Battleship Scharnhorst and the Library of Doom

“The human mind is itself an illusion that believes in itself, and memories are nothing more than what the illusion believes once happened. ”
― Timothy J. Gawne, Space Battleship Scharnhorst and the Library of Doom

“They had been lying so facilely for so long that they believed their own lies, and could not tell truth from fiction”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“The human form, overly complex and weak though it is, can sometimes be surprisingly versatile at sneaking around and exploring complex and novel environments; and it’s fun. My favorite human-shape remote is a copy of Amelia Earhart, from pre-exodus earth. Walking through the ruins of some long-dead alien civilization, flying goggles pulled back on my head, leather flying jacket zipped up tight with a silk scarf around my neck, hiking boots crunching on dust older than the phylum of my progenitors, I think I can imagine what it must have been like for those early human explorers. At”
― Timothy J. Gawne, The Chronicles of Old Guy

“No excuses, no complaints. Succeed, or fail and die.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“What hallucinogenic mind-altering compounds were they applying to their mucous membranes back home?”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“(From the video series “Nymphomaniac Engineer in Zentopia,” mid-22nd century Earth)”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“Where there is bat guano there’s bats:”
― Timothy J. Gawne, Space Battleship Scharnhorst and the Library of Doom

“competition for jobs crushed people into wage slavery,”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“The aliens attacking humanity have made numerous peace overtures and been rejected every time.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!

“The threat of violence is the foundation on which all diplomacy rests.”
― Timothy J. Gawne, Space Battleship Scharnhorst and the Library of Doom