Blaze Ward > Quotes

“The pad had random characters scrawled on several lines, all but the last one crossed out. “Seriously?” Siobhan asked. “Who does that?” “Someone who hates facing a ninety-day password cycle,” Dedra grinned. “Got a few of them back on the ship. When I’m feeling mean, I cross out a line and add a new one without saying anything. Then they put the wrong one in three times and lock themselves out.”
― Blaze Ward, Two Bottles of Wine with a War God

“No culture deserves to be annihilated, if people still support it, but their power to impose on the weaker must be ended.”
― Blaze Ward, SeptStar

“The whole point of a civil service is to maintain equilibrium over time, tempering the worst of bad leaders and supporting the efforts of good ones.”
― Blaze Ward, Revolution

“He looked forward to the day he could retire someplace soft, like a strike commando team on a suicide mission.”
― Blaze Ward, St. Legier

“Evan had the rear sensor array blasting the ground with what looked to be old television sitcoms, with enough power behind them that the wires of the buildings below might be playing the theme song all by themselves. Phil wondered if that constituted a war crime, and laughed to himself.”
― Blaze Ward, Persephone

“Every Commander lived in terror of his Engines being taken by the warp-spawn.”
― Blaze Ward, The Eden Package

“Ethics are what you do when nobody is looking, and reputation is what you do to someone who can neither help nor hurt you.”
― Blaze Ward, Winterhome

“I tried is the most powerful phrase in the history of humanity,”
― Blaze Ward, Alien Seas

“We are the officers on the scene,” Heather quoted primly. “We need operational authority to meet situational requirements.” “That sounds so much better than making this shit up as we go,” Siobhan laughed again.”
― Blaze Ward, Queen Anne’s Revenge

“You’re upset?” Stunt Dude replied, grinning. “I was all set to pull off a boarding action to make Packmule look tame. Then he goes and gets them to surrender instead of running off to where we could ambush them.”
― Blaze Ward, Persephone

“Humans had once used all manner of technologies to modify plants and animals, back before they understood the risks. A wheat crop that was immune to pesticides and only digestible to ninety percent of people was still likely to poison a vast swath of humanity. Ten percent of a trillion humans was a big number. And using viruses to inject new genes into things might have been brilliant technical engineering, but no squid ever bred with a cow. And the chances of the outcomes being entirely beneficial were low. Thus, the University of Uelkal was an agronomy institute.”
― Blaze Ward, The Bryce Connection

“if you want to go crazy, how much weirder could it get than to steal an uninhabited but viable planet behind enemy lines and set up an illegal cattle ranch?”
― Blaze Ward, Packmule

“Across the bar, Valentinian watched the old man sit down at another table. Another pair of spacers, one human and one a tall, furry alien, looked just as disreputable as Valentinian felt right now. He could always come back later.”
― Blaze Ward, Longshot Hypothesis

“I threatened to make him a fleet–wide laughingstock, Jež. You don’t deal with bullies by challenging them. They thrive on that.” “Oh?” Denis inquired. “No, you laugh at them, and get everyone else to laugh at them. Nothing deflates a bully faster than being laughed at by everyone. Especially a woman.”
― Blaze Ward, Auberon

“Engines were routinely used up and burned out by exposure to the warp. And the things that lived inside it, outside the known universe.”
― Blaze Ward, The Eden Package