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"But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody."
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Jack McDevittWhen things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide wh — Jack McDevitt
"When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business."
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Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt
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Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books concern either galactic relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath or superluminal space pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins. McDevitt has received numerous nominations for Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell awar
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"Why is it that people want so desperately to shake hands with otherworldly beings? That people will even insist that they have seen visitors from Spica hovering above their backyards? In other times it was ghosts and fairies and goblins, and voices in the night. Is the company of our own species so dull that we need to invent the Other? On the other hand, maybe that explains it."
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"“I suspect we would be wise,” he said without looking up, “to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.”"
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"Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from."
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"It was housed in one of those garish ultramodern steel and glass abstract buildings, designed to demonstrate a kind of mathematical flow but which really only succeeded in marring the landscape."
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"Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything."
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