Jerry Pournelle Quotes About War

• 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.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Paz, Guerra, Largo

• 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.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Correr, Filosofía, Guerra

• 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.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Paz, Guerra, Hombres

• The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

  Jerry Pournelle

  War, Army, Way

• 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.

  Jerry Pournelle

  War, Smart, Names

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