Пол Уильям Андерсон знаменитые цитаты
„Мы живём с нашими архетипами, но можем ли мы жить в них?“
«Выполненное задание»
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
So much American science fiction is parochial <…> — but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
Источник: Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction http://www.locusmag.com/1997/Issues/04/Anderson.html // Locus Magazine. — April 1997.
Пол Уильям Андерсон цитаты
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Источник: Зовите меня Джо
мысль
Источник: Зовите меня Джо
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Общий вариант часто называют «Законом Андерсона» («Anderson's Law»):
Источник: Приведено по Harold Kerzner. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling. — P. 246. http://books.google.com/books?id=4CqvpWwMLVEC&pg=PA246&dq=%22I+have+yet+to+see+any+problem,+however+complicated,+which,+when+you+looked+at+it+in+the+right+way,+did+not+become+still+more+complicated.%22&ei=ca-iSs2cCY2mM7Ka2fIH#v=onepage&q=%22I%20have%20yet%20to%20see%20any%20problem%2C%20however%20complicated%2C%20which%2C%20when%20you%20looked%20at%20it%20in%20the%20right%20way%2C%20did%20not%20become%20still%20more%20complicated.%22&f=false
„…у истории свой путь, и он усеян могилами пацифистов.“
«Полёт в вечность»
„Но что вообще такое человек, если не набор обычаев и табу?“
«Война Крылатых Людей»
„Беседа с другом сокращает путь, а рука друга делает его безопаснее.“
«Три сердца и три льва»
Пол Уильям Андерсон: Цитаты на английском языке
“Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.”
Источник: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 60
“He’d seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.”
Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter III (p. 93)
The Star Fox (1965)
“Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.”
Источник: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 12 (p. 76)
“Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden’s heart.”
Источник: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 24 (p. 171)
“Say on. If you are a rogue, you are at least an interesting one.”
Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 286)
Time Patrol
Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 313)
Time Patrol
“Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.”
Источник: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 38)
“Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.”
"The Saturn Game" (1981)
Short fiction
“There really wasn’t much in a man’s life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.”
Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter IX (p. 200)
The Star Fox (1965)
“His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.”
Источник: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 104)
Источник: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 40
“I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.”
Источник: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 3 (p. 20)
Section 1 “Marque and Reprisal”, Chapter V (pp. 37-38)
The Star Fox (1965)
“You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.”
Источник: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 12 (p. 103)
The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 343)
Time Patrol