Frases de Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon Rupert Dickson fue un escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía nacido en Canadá residente desde los 13 años en Estados Unidos. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. noviembre 1923 – 31. enero 2001  •  Otros nombres قوردون آر. دیکسون, Гордон Діксон, 戈登·R·迪克森
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Gordon R. Dickson: Frases en inglés

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

Gordon R. Dickson libro 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.”

Gordon R. Dickson

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 libro Tactics of Mistake

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

“And someone that brilliant must be a devil?”

Gordon R. Dickson libro 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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