Gordon R. Dickson cytaty

Gordon Rupert Dickson – amerykański pisarz science fiction i fantasy.

Urodził się w Kanadzie. W wieku 13 lat wyemigrował do Stanów Zjednoczonych, gdzie w latach 1943 do 1946 służył w armii. Ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie Stanowym Minnesoty. Większość swojego życia spędził w Minneapolis w Minnesocie. Pierwszą powieść Alien From Arcturus wydał w 1956. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Listopad 1923 – 31. Styczeń 2001   •   Natępne imiona قوردون آر. دیکسون, Гордон Діксон, 戈登·R·迪克森
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Gordon R. Dickson: Cytaty po angielsku

“In a climate of confusion, one of the surest ways of confounding the enemy is to tell him the plain truth.”

Gordon R. Dickson książka Necromancer

Źródło: Necromancer (1962), Chapter 5 (p. 36)

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

Gordon R. Dickson książka Dorsai!

“Protector II” (section 19, p. 490)
Dorsai! (1960)

“Even as she lay dreaming these dreams, however, a sane part of her mind was still on duty. Realistically, she knew that what she was thinking was nonsense.”

The Mortal and the Monster, in Stellar Short Novels edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, p. 23
Short fiction

“Exaggeration of confidence,” he said, “is a fault in people who don’t know their business.”

Gordon R. Dickson książka Tactics of Mistake

This is an early statement of what would come to be known as the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Źródło: Tactics of Mistake (1971), Chapter 20 (p. 315).

““Good luck to you, too, sir.”
“I make it a point not to know the lady,” said Cletus. “I can’t afford to count on her.””

Gordon R. Dickson książka Tactics of Mistake

Źródło: Tactics of Mistake (1971), Chapter 24 (p. 349)

“And someone that brilliant must be a devil?”

Gordon R. Dickson książka Dorsai!

queried Galt, dryly.
“Not at all,” explained Donal, patiently. “But having such intellectual capabilities, a man must show proportionately greater inclinations toward either good or evil than lesser people. If he tends toward evil, he may mask it in himself—he may even mask its effect on the people with which he surrounds himself. But he has no way of producing the reflections of good which would ordinarily be reflected from his lieutenants and initiates—and which, if he was truly good—he would have no reason to try and hide. And by that lack, you can read him.”
“Mercenary II” (section 4, p. 386)
Dorsai! (1960)

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