Jack McDevitt Quotes

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Railroads ... are positively the greatest blessing that the ages have wrought out for us. They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel.

Globalization is the speed of light.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Donald's Trump entire campaign is a self-troll. It's very meta.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.