Quotes from David Gerrold

It wasn't hard work. It was methodical. I'm good at methodical stuff, so I didn't mind. But other people do. They think it's a dirty job. I wondered if this was the reason Captain Skyler had brought me along, so no one else would have to do it. But I'm a scientist. I think it's exciting. Most of science is gathering a lot of fact and looking for patterns. And it's not a dirty job.

I don't understand hook-ups, but I don't like touching very much, so maybe that's why.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

People who've never been out in the grass don't get it. I didn't understand what Jamie was talking about until I stood in the middle of a furrow, looking around at this very narrow world, a shadow valley with only a strip of sky above to remember there's a horizen somewhere.

The argument has never been resolved and maybe it never will be.

Hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It all sounds very good, but it's a lot easier to say it than to do it.

Alexei didn't bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.

Captain Skyler thinks Councilor Layton is always trying to divide people so he can control them, but Councilor Layton says that Captain Skyler wants to keep everybody in one place so he can control them. It's an argument I'm not sure I understand.

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.