Aaron Allston Quotes

• 'This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.'
• 'The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.'
• 'The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.'
• 'The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.'
• 'Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.'
• 'I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.'
• 'If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?'
• 'Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.'
• 'A scream queen is an actress who eeks out a living.'
• 'Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.' (aka Allston's Corollary to Clarke's Law)
• 'There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.'
• 'No one pays me to be nice.'
• 'When all else fails, complicate matters.'
• 'Violence is the first refuge of the violent.'
• 'The way to a man's heart is through his chest.'
• 'Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.'
• 'The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.'
• 'Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.'
• 'Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.'
• 'I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.'
• 'Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.'
• 'Life is like an analogy.'
• 'The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.'

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