Citas de Jerry Pournelle

• To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.

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  Kings, Home, Fighting

  "There Will Be War". Book by Jerry Pournelle, 1983.

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• La libertad no es libre. Los hombres libres no son iguales. Los hombres iguales no son libres.

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  Men, Equal, Free Man

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• Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

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  Burning, Investing, Progressive

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• A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

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  Real, Dark, Keys

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• In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

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  Profesor, Niños, Escritura

  "The View From Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. April 3, 2006.

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• That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

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  Errors, Doe, Made

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• In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

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  Law, People, Goal

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• One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

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  Able, Election, Streets

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• A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

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  War, Smart, Names

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• We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

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  Years, Building, Plunder

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• Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

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  Precios elevados

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• En cualquier situación ética, lo que menos quieres hacer es probablemente la acción correcta.

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  Want, Action, Ethical

  "Lucifer's Hammer". Book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, 1977.

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• The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

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  Thinking, Differences, Political

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• Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

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  Believe, Cooking, Different

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• La arrogancia de algunos que están tan seguros de tener razón es simplemente asombrosa. La caza de brujas científica suele ser de las peores, y lo ha sido desde que las autoridades laicas dejaron de aplicar los decretos de anatema del obispo local.

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  Math, Science, Arrogance

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• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

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  Writing, Mean, Stories

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• Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.

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  Correr, Filosofía, Guerra

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• Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

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  Warrior, Cities, People

  Reply to reader email on "The View from Chaos Manor" - personal blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. February 21, 2001.

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• If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

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  World, Information

  The View From Chaos Manor, View 402, www.jerrypournelle.com. February 20 - 26, 2006.

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• It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

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  Gobierno, Largo, Gente

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• Tengo una gran colección de programas de citas... En particular, me gusta Wisdom of the Ages, de MCR Software, que tiene la mejor selección de citas relevantes que conozco.

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  Age, Mcr, Program

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• Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

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  Political, Desire, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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• You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

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  Epic, Knowing, Way

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• Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

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  Paz, Guerra, Hombres

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• La Destrucción Mutua Asegurada, MAD, sólo funciona mientras funciona; no sabe qué hacer si falla la disuasión, ya que no prevé ninguna capacidad defensiva. Una disuasión funciona hasta que se necesita; entonces se necesitan defensas.

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  Paz, Guerra, Largo

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