Jacob Proffitt

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Jacob’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) by Dennis E. Taylor

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I’d have to cut off the ship’s drive momentarily when firing, but it was considerably better than my current defensive armament, which consisted of harsh words and heavy disapproval. Probably not effective against Klingons.

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02 Dec · Flag

Khalid Abdul-Mumin

I loved the hard Sci-Fi elements

03 Dec · Flag

Jacob Proffitt

It’s been entertaining, but I wouldn’t say great. That whole “religious people are dangerous nutjobs” bit was divorced enough from observable ways people work to make me question his ability for obser…

03 Dec · Flag

Jacob Proffitt

Khalid: I’m not sure I’d call this hard Sci-Fi, but since I’m not a huge fan of hard Sci-Fi, I’m maybe not the best judge of it? It does do pretty good at explaining things and staying consistent and …

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Jacob’s Quotes

“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: humanity, ideology, people, political-revolutionary, revolution, revolutionary-movement

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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Thomas Sowell

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“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
― Scott Lynch

tags: honesty, reviews, twitter

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“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

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