David Gerrold
David Gerrold
David Gerrold is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist known for his script for the popular original Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", for creating the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and for his novelette "The Martian Child", which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
David Gerrold quotes about
inspirational funny humor
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
success jobs secret
The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.
funny sarcastic witty
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
expression world facts
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
contentment aging accepting
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
time past long
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.
kindness philosophy commitment
I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.
thinking
I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
bucks passing asks
If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.
avalanches
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.
peculiar sometimes habit
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
thinking people work-out
We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.
feds
Incompetency fed on itself.
war people havens
Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.