Bryan Cacciatore > Bryan's Quotes

“It can't possibly work. Because the reason the person built the time machine was so that he could go back and destroy Hitler. Now, with Hitler dead, his future self wouldn't have a reason to create a time machine. So his future self would never build that time machine, and he would never go back in time. It's called a paradox.”
― C. David Milles, Paradox

“The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.”
― Daniel Suarez, Daemon

“It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.”
― Nicole Grotepas, Feed

“I heard what sounded like twenty rockets exploding nearby, because twenty rockets exploded nearby.”
― Steven Campbell, Screw The Galaxy

“I can't sleep at night, imagining all the horrible things that could happen. This isn't Pandora's Box. It's Pandora's Nuclear Launch Codes.”
― Dennis Kunders, ARC

“What are pictures, but frozen moments in time? With that simple technology, we've managed to take a split second and, using the photons of light, capture it forever. That second will never happen again; it is unique in the universe. Yet we're able to hold on to it.”
― C. David Milles, Paradox

“A thing can't exist in people's minds until it has a name. But with a name, it can exist in people's minds without existing at all. You should always come up with a name before you set out to create anything.”
― Daniel Suarez, Influx

“Being ready for a thing doesn't mean you want it.”
― Brian C. O'Doherty, Alternet

“If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it.”
― Kenneth Horowitz, Breaking Wi-Fi

“Work isn't the most important thing in the world. Even though I don't live like it, I do realize it.”
― A. M. Martinez, Shaving Apes

“At some point in my life, it became hard to tell what my gut instinct told me and what my programmed mind had interfered with.”
― A. M. Martinez, Shaving Apes

“The perception of success is the mother of power. When those who can hurt you see you fail, the the power seeps from you like the water from a cracked pot.”
― Mark Russinovich, Rogue Code

“There is nothing more dangerous than when a manager learns a new piece of lingo.”
― William Hertling, Kill Process

“A person's value shifts greatly when the world comes to an end.”
― Keary Taylor, The Eden Trilogy

“Still, I couldn’t say sorry. That would make me look like some incompetent idiot—which I was—but I didn’t want them to know that. So I just held my ground and looked mean.”
― Steven Campbell, Suck My Cosmos

“I took my autocannon off my back and swung it around to my front, holding it like I meant business. Every gun means business, that’s what they’re for. Laugh all you want at a little .22, you get shot by one you’re not laughing. But an autocannon that hurls a grenade four or eight or whatever miles, takes business to a whole other level. It was an advanced degree in business.”
― Steven Campbell, Basketful of Crap

“We had a good method for dealing with drunks provided there were few enough of them. We just blasted them with cold fire extinguishers for about twenty seconds. At first they would laugh. Then they would choke. Then they would feel their skin freezing. Your body is good at getting you undrunk really quick. Or at the least making you put your clothes back on and stop licking buildings.”
― Steven Campbell, Prince of Suck

“I hastened away like a little girl who saw a rat and it had pulled a knife on her.”
― Steven Campbell, Stank Delicious

“Ideas are cheap. It is building them into profitable companies that is hard. Ideas are like insects. Many are born but few live to maturity.”
― William Hertling, Kill Process

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Mark Twain