Brushfire Quotes

“just because people disagree with you, that might make them dumbasses, but it doesn’t make them bad people.”
― Craig Alanson, Brushfire

“Just one, Sir. In Australia, will we have to eat Vegemite?”
― Craig Alanson, Brushfire

“Supposedly they could do that, Vleen reminded himself with a healthy measure of skepticism. The target ship was controlled by humans who had an Elder AI helping them. He thought it unlikely that ship’s original AI still existed, or that the architecture of the substrate was anything even remotely familiar to the experts who were assigned to hack into it. The idea that they could take back the battlecruiser simply by accessing its main computer was almost silly, yet those were his orders.”
― Craig Alanson, Brushfire

“One thing that totally sucks about being in a position of authority is that you don’t get to do whatever you want, you have to do what is best for the unit.”
― Craig Alanson, Brushfire