Jasper Fforde Quotes
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
Fforde, Jasper. Shades of Grey. Viking, 2009.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.”
SAC is responsible for all the ground based intercontinental nuclear missiles and the airborne nuclear bombers. There has been a very low tolerance for error as the dangers were so high. None the less, there have been a number of serious failures over the years but the nuclear and other damage has not been catastrophic.
Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels. He has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, and has published the first books of two additional independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.