Tiger Chair Quotes

“The insurgents don’t kill children. They never have.”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair

“Why can’t we learn from America’s mistakes? Americans have. They’ve used the blood of their fallen to write an entirely new rule book for warfare. And rule one is as old as Vietnam: simplicity can defeat technology.”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair

“you once tell me about all these ingenious financial AI programs that were standard practice in your business? They sound a lot like Jiang Ziya. Impartial. Efficient. Perfect. But who programmed these supposedly perfect machines? Imperfect humans, who allowed their biases to be baked into the first generation of code.”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair

“Then there was another name: Mel Brooks. I don’t know who he was, but he had six fingers on his left hand.”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair

“To follow doctrine is to spread the blame, but bucking it means owning the consequences.”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair

“What did Churchill say about Americans always doing the right thing, once they’ve exhausted all other options?”
― Max Brooks, Tiger Chair