Jeff Edwards > Quotes

“Robert Whitehead built the first self-propelled torpedo. ”
― Jeff Edwards, Sea of Shadows

“Their weapons did not fail them,” Lu Shi said. “Their soldiers didn’t fail them. Their economy was not in danger of collapse. Only one thing failed them, but it was enough to send the indomitable American military slinking home like a beaten mongrel. Their national willpower failed. They lost the desire to win.”
― Jeff Edwards, Sword of Shiva

“But how do you stop a torpedo? Thirty years of R-and-D, and we still don’t have a viable system for intercepting torpedoes. We can’t shoot them down; we can’t jam them; we can’t hide from them.”
― Jeff Edwards, Sea of Shadows

“Shortly after midnight on September 7, 1776, a young Army sergeant named Ezra Lee climbed into a tiny one-man submarine, pulled the hatch shut over his head, and submerged beneath the waters of New York harbor.  His target was HMS Eagle, a sixty-four–gun man-of-war that served as the flagship of the British fleet.  (In a tiny stroke of irony, the British Admiral Lord Howe had anchored Eagle within a few hundred yards of Bedloe’s Island, which would one day be renamed Liberty Island—the site for the Statue of Liberty.)”
― Jeff Edwards, Sea of Shadows

“When I walked out the door, she was trying on John Lee Hooker’s The Motor City is Burning.  She was beginning to appreciate the difference between notes strung together by expert software agents, and music written by men and women who felt it in the marrow of their bones.  I envied her contented smile of discovery.”
― Jeff Edwards, Dome City Blues

“Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in trying not to do the wrong thing that we forget to do the right thing.”
― Jeff Edwards, Sword of Shiva