Jack Vaughan

“As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“He was going to show that the paradoxes were not excrescences; they were fundamental.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“the subject is increased by the fact that while we have to deal with novel and strange facts, we have also to use old words in novel and inconsistent senses.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. [...] I knew one 4th division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. He told me that they cooled things out just right for him, that could see that old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope. "They sure give you the range," he said.”
― Michael Herr