The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

- Poul Anderson

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

- Poul Anderson

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

- Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

- Poul Anderson

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

- Poul Anderson

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

- Poul Anderson

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

- Poul Anderson

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do …

- Poul Anderson

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

- Poul Anderson