# Cauldron

- Author: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron

## Quotes

> He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

p. 322 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/he-was-usually.md)

> “It’s all PR,” said Hutchins. “If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.”

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/its-all-pr-said.md)

> Technological civilizations don’t last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

p. 248 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/technological-civilizations-dont.md)

> If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.

p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/if-youre-paying.md)

> “Technology is dangerous.”
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> “How do you mean?”
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> “It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

p. 242 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/technology-is-dangerous.md)

> The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/the-kids-were.md)

> If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/if-you-want.md)

> At night the sea is very loud,
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> And voices ride the tide.
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> At another time, in another place,
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> Beneath the silent moon,
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> We laughed together.

p. 279 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/at-night-the.md)

> If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

p. 256 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/if-you-want-data.md)

> “If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.”

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/if-some-of-the.md)