Quotes from Joe Haldeman

MÄ›l jsem strach. Kdo by nemÄ›l nahnáno? KromÄ› blázn?, robot?, kandidát? na sebevraždu... ... a d?stojník?.

PÃ…â"¢edstava, že bychom se mÄ›li odebrat na v??nost kv?li nÄ›jaké chybÄ› na tÃ…â"¢icátém desetinném místÄ›, které se dopustil neznámý programátor, se mi v?bec nelíbila.

On Earth, we'd just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.

Meanwhile, we chip ice, shovel snow, thaw pipes, scrape windows. Winter lasts forever on this god-forsaken world.

different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak

Call him the chameleon: an alpha male who never had sons, unless an adulterer cooperated. Unlike the changeling, he did have DNA, but it was alien; he could no more reproduce with a human than he could with a rock or a tree.

He had a moustache-and-beard combination that looked like a skinny white caterpillar taking a lap around his mouth.

Good afternoon, Suzy Q. Are you ladies all right?" "Nobody's all right, Officer. Nobody's all wrong, nobody's all right. We all of us stuck in the middle." He

violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

She found out that you could do a lot of editing with three words, if they were yes, no, and shit.

Oh, stop. You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Why do you always get the tired ones when you're ready and the randy ones when you're tired?

all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

My duties were more varied but offered little satisfaction, since the problems that percolated up to me were of the 'the buck stops here' type; those with pleasing, unambiguous solutions were taken care of in the lower echelons.

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet. 'Make it a double, please.

Christ and Buddha

There had been an army in which that sort of thing was done, a strong quasi-memory told me. The Marxist POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, early twentieth. You obeyed an order only after it had been explained in detail; you could refuse if it didn't make sense. Officers and men got drunk together and never saluted or used titles. They lost the war. But the other side didn't have any fun.

Everything had gone wrong, nothing made sense, why why why why?

oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

We did have the consolation, not small, that however short the remainder of our lives would be, we would at least be together.

Their eye-hand coordination was impressive (maybe the Eugenics Council had done something right).

gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.