Frasi di Charles Sheffield

Charles Sheffield è stato un matematico, fisico e scrittore di fantascienza britannico.

Ha vinto il Premio John Wood Campbell Memorial con il romanzo Brother to Dragons e i premi Hugo e Nebula con il racconto Georgia on My Mind .

È stato presidente dalla Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America e dell'American Astronautical Society. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Giugno 1935 – 2. Novembre 2002
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“That’s a whole lot of ifs you got there.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

“True. But which would you prefer, Louis Nenda?” Atvar H’sial rose from her crouched position. “A substantial set of contingent possibilities, or a single unpleasant certainty?”
Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 32, “Escape Clause” (p. 385)

“You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 30, “Stripping the Ship” (p. 368)

“When you had little or no information, it was unreasonable to have any expectations. But somehow you did, even if they were often wrong.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 246)

“Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)

“I do not like to concatenate implausibilities.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 188)

“As you will one day discover, a leader is not a leader because of the way that he or she behaves. He is a leader only because of the way that he is treated by others.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 187)

“When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.”

Charles Sheffield libro Resurgence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 4, “Sleepless in Miranda Port” (p. 33)

“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)

“When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)

“One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 433)

“Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)

“Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 321)

“Theories were a dime a dozen. The partition that separated science and wishful thinking was evidence: observations and firm facts.”

Charles Sheffield libro Convergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)

“What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.”

Charles Sheffield libro Transcendence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 17 (p. 188)

“But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.”

Charles Sheffield libro Transcendence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.”

Charles Sheffield libro Transcendence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 125)

“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”

Charles Sheffield libro Transcendence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 7, “The Torvil Anfract” (p. 70)

“Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.”

Charles Sheffield libro Divergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 495)

“Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.”

Charles Sheffield libro Divergence

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 433)

“No purpose is served by making private suffering into a public event.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 254)

“Be an optimist! It’s the only way to live.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)

“What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries—but probably goes along with it.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)

“That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 150)

“The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 127)

“Everyone was polite; no one was happy.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 126)

“Mathematics is universal. But very little else is.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 10, “Summertide Minus Eighteen” (p. 119)

“But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 6, “Summertide Minus Twenty-Nine” (p. 65)

“But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other.”

Charles Sheffield libro Summertide

Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)

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