Todd McCaffrey > Todd's Quotes

“Every day is a test,” Cisca replied soberly. “But we’ll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing.”
― Todd J. McCaffrey, Dragonheart

“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.”
― Roger Moorhouse, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

“I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“When you’re dead it’s really hard to argue that you were careful.”
― Talla Hill, Ghost Tear

“Justice is a balancing act between competing objectives: retribution (making the criminal pay); reparation (compensating the victim); rehabilitation (reforming the criminal); deterrence (protecting society as a whole); and vindication (applying the law so the law is respected).”
― Frank Trentmann, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

“I’m a geek who thinks he’s software running on midrange biological hardware.”
― Nigel Poulton, The Kubernetes Book