Andrew Klavan Quotes

Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine.

We have to work hard and not dream too much, because if we dream too much, we can fall down very quickly.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.