Dennis E. Taylor Quotes

Project planning isn’t about avoiding changes, it’s about controlling them. No project plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Geometric progression means a small advantage up front can turn into an insurmountable lead, eventually.” I

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!” Homer’s VR came online, smiling. “I guess we got’em.” I snorted with relief. “And their little dog, too.” Homer

Thank the universe for convergent physiology, at least he couldn’t yell out a warning.

Sadly, it was like most political arguments. No one was willing to debate their base assumptions or justify them or compromise on them. The simple tactic being that if you repeated your assertion often enough, with enough emotion and volume, the opponents would somehow be forced to see things your way. Never worked, of course.

There wasn’t exactly a booming movie industry, of course. Vulcan was very much a frontier planet, and the economy was still bootstrapping through the basic requirements. We’d be another couple of decades before leisure activities became a major market segment.

God exists, and he’s not only a nasty SOB, he’s also a B-movie director with a warped sense of humor.

This is … Locutus.” “Seriously?” Garfield said in an incredulous tone. “Hey, I’d have preferred Hugh, but it appears to be taken,” said Locutus.

A friendly reminder that you are a scourge on the universe. Do it a favor and disappear. This public service message brought to you by: Voluntary Extinction of Human Existence Means Earth’s Natural Transformation

There can never be too many of us. There can only be not enough food.

With that thought, I ran up behind the dragon — as a first-level grunt, I was barely worth paying attention to — jammed the staff of fireballs right where a rectal thermometer would go, and pulled the trigger.

How does the human race survive past one generation? How do parents not just eat their children?

Habitable Earths Abiogenic Vessel Exploration Network. Please remember that I don’t think these things up.

Typical politician. Never use ten words when a thousand will do.

I couldn’t remember any science-fiction stories that actually dealt with how you’d handle timekeeping on a new planet.