All These Worlds Quotes

“Don’t make the common mistake of thinking your opponents are stupid just because they don’t see things your way,”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“So, you’re doing things the hard way, because you’re too lazy to figure out how to do them the easy way?”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“But right or wrong, I’ll die in peace. And Pascal’s Wager works both ways, right?” I nodded, returning his smile. “Yup. If you’re wrong, you won’t have the opportunity to regret it.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Interestingly, two hundred years later and twenty light years away, people still behaved the same in elevators as they did in Original Bob’s day. Everyone turned to face the doors, and ignored each other.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“nothing had ever been invented or discovered that beat chocolate—”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Some people just seemed to want to display their power by defining what others could or couldn’t do.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“If there was a hell, it was in sales.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Ah, the good old days,” I replied. “When things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.” “Barefoot.” “Uphill.” “Both ways.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“It’s the law, Marcus.” I smiled at Councilor Brennan. “Which simply sidesteps the statement. Anything can be passed into law. That doesn’t make it right.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“...And the sun is too bright, the clouds are too dark, the bugs are too buggy, the hills are too hilly.”
“You exaggerate.”
“Possibly. A bit.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Their lives were now less than a footnote in history. As gone, as utterly forgotten as any random individual from the Middle Ages. No longer even a ripple in time, except to the extent that I could keep their memories alive. I sighed to myself. It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage—memories, regrets, and lost opportunities.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Geometric progression means a small advantage up front can turn into an insurmountable lead, eventually.” I”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“I sighed. If there was a hell, it was in sales.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Clothes shopping. Even death apparently wasn’t an escape.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Tell you what, Fred,” I answered. “Why don’t you bend way over, stick your head up your own butthole, and keep pushing until you disappear completely.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Their lives were now less than a footnote in history. As gone, as utterly forgotten as any random individual from the Middle Ages. No longer even a ripple in time, except to the extent that I could keep their memories alive.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“grabbed my hand to drag me off. Clothes shopping. Even death apparently wasn’t an escape.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“The irony of hoisting them on their own petard was so overt that it needed no further words.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“something about a suit and tie just made me feel like I was being slowly strangled.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Buster gazed at me in a perplexed silence for a few moments. Then he said, diffidently, “Robert? You’re the Bawbe, aren’t you?”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“She’s entitled to her opinion and you’re entitled to her opinion, as well.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Jeffrey was a bit of a dick, and liked to keep people waiting, just to show how important he was.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“they still tasted better in Real than in Virt.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“we were the front line in a war that would decide the ultimate fate of the human race. Not really where I’d expected my life to go.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“We ran some image interpolations. It looks like he’s attaching busters to an ingot with cables.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Ah, the good old days,” I replied. “When things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.” “Barefoot.” “Uphill.” “Both ways.” Retirement Marcus February 2218 Poseidon I”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“I dismissed my VR and frame-jacked up to maximum. At this level, I could sense jitter in my perceptions as my hardware attempted to pixelate reality.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“And Pascal’s Wager works both ways, right?” I nodded, returning his smile. “Yup. If you’re wrong, you won’t have the opportunity to regret it.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“there was a hell, it was in sales.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds