Quotes About Challenge

Starships are all work and no fun.

There is cold comfort to be drawn from the sure and certain knowledge that the correct way to deal with the problem you're facing in your job involves napalm, if

Yes, Derek," I tell him, "we hauled you four thousand miles out of your comfort zone just so you could make a saving throw vs. Cthulhu. Happy now?

There is cold comfort to be drawn from the sure and certain knowledge that the correct way to deal with the problem you're facing in your job involves napalm, if you find yourself confronting a dragon and you aren't even carrying a cigarette lighter.

over-endowed with WOMBATs." (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.)))

And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.

You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.

It was one of ours originally, but no human being can sprint around a building with their helmet off and backpack missing in a fimbulwinter cold enough to freeze liquid oxygen.

She could ace the North Circular in a jacked Toyota Tercel faster than Sabine Schmitz could lap the Nürburgring in a Transit van, and the only times the plod had got on her tail she'd left them, well, plodding.

the fool's errand to the edge of the Beckenstein limit again

and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.

Fucking netbooks; you can't even use one to beat an alien brain parasite to death without it breaking.)

Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That's right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind of thing do you think I'd bother with you?" Her question takes him by surprise, rattling his introspective daze.

took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound .

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top?

one point, Leah gave CJ a tough geometry problem in our Berlin hotel room. He collapsed to the floor, where he began crying and saying repeatedly that he wanted to be a taco.

I didn't come here to make friends.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly. His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

extricating herself from tricky situations unscathed. She'd never met a lock she couldn't pick or a tight spot she couldn't wiggle out of. Be that actual or verbal. But she'd hit her first wall. And it scared the bejesus out of her how helpless she was right now.

You start out every day with something new and different, and sometimes it looks pretty good and sometimes it doesn't, but you have to go through it anyway.

Then his real struggle would begin. Then he would try to make them understand that the old ways were no more.

Chet Cunningham