Jack McDevitt
American science fiction author.
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.
It explained a lot of things.
“Organized mayhem,” Nick commented, “seems to be the chief preoccupation of intelligent species everywhere.”
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
He took particular delight in neutralizing those who desperately needed to be neutralized, those overblown, self-important, arrogant half-wits who were always running about dictating behavior, morals, and theology to everyone else. And he never looked back.