Steve Merrick Quotes

With the caution of a gazelle I looked to the closed door ahead of it, and feeling a tickle of fear in my knotted stomach I entered this tube.

If only I had objected harder, or ordered him or something. It could have been different. It should have been different. None of this was meant to happen this way ...

Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded.

Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure.

London? It's a city full of sleepwalkers chasing other people's dreams.

Party politics is nothing more than the collision of mass preconceptions.

I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.

I have zero respect for knowledge, that's what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.
Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick

Well if its the right way round she should push thats all.

Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,

Politics.
It used to mean something, but it is now merely an abstract part of the entertainments industry.

Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry.

Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

The ancient greeks called all of those stars and planets in our night sky. "Wanderers." I don't think anyone has come up with a better name for all of those lovely suns.

NONE OF THIS IS REAL EXCEPT THE LESSONS YOU LEARN

Is that Saturn. I thought the rings would be bigger?!

Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be.

No Navigator, we are just going with the flow of it all.
007 In The Navigator by Steve Merrick

Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ...

Think of humanity and you see an idea, and think idea and you see imagination, and imagination is everything guys n gals

That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures.

Death stalks all of us by default.

I don't know how far it got, but it looked pretty flightworthy from where I was standing,

Charles Darwin's only mistake was in not being a physicist, because the entire process of evolution started before our planet formed, with the event called the big bang, at this point our knowledge is such that I can hazard this further observation, all of the building blocks of life started at that moment, and that is how far we can back track this process of evolution.

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse ...

It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science.

If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe.

Corruption.
like anything it is systematic, and without a level of corruption ost societies would seize up, the levels of accepted/expected political corruption don't even raise eyebrows anymore, especially when it runs parallel to our economic systems, so I guess we are stuck with it.

Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals?

How did I get where I am. If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.

Now that would be a good way to face Armageddon, fighting it every step of the way, or should you choose to be an Ostrich, well you can go out with your head buried in the sand.

Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math

MY GAZELLES ARE ALL IN ROW, (But they run off a lot)
Kego O'Grady

That is what is normal, it's an every day millisecond by millisecond miracle."

Zhi Wawa in Charlie Versus The Quantum Memory.

It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all.

If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?

Ok if they had a problem their system of parties basically took polarised positions about it, and if you look at them like they were an atom, then call the problem the protons, and the parties electrons, all that they could do was orbit the problem doing absolutely nothing about it. Are you following my thought chain here?

Theres nothing more fun than a kitten in zero gravity.

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him.

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

Democracy. For something that has no specific dictionary definition, it is as open to interpretation as any holy book is, and as wide open to as many translative abuses, yet without any definitive definition the process means something very different to every person it impacts upon. I would add that until we get an accurate definition the word is meaningless, and when the process is so open to interpretation that the Koch Bros can buy it, legally, without any fuss, that action in itself is not democratic, but neither is it illegal? All that before i hit the dangers of party politics ...

Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it.

Talking Sea horses would be ridiculous

Guess what? Science like gravity doesn't care what the sex of the discoverers is ...

Pat the little Spaceman on the head and get him to shut up, so we can get on with the important works of making the very same mistakes we made on planet Earth in the first place!

I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions.

Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling.

The path of life on our planet and maybe many others does not need a divinity to thrive, it needs no excuse to live, owes no debt to the universe because it is a part of the universe, no driving force other than the primal forces of physics and chemistry are needed, those two sets created biology, and if you backtrack all of the life on the Earth, you inevitably end up looking at stardust.

No, It's not failed, it's correcting itself through failure,
Kego O'Grady in the Navogator by Steve Merrick.

Psychology and art are never easy bedfellows.

Look in Kego's defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn't for him.
Jenny Smith In The Navigator by Steve Merrick

Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong.

Ok is there anyone here who isn't injured?" She let the silence last a bit longer theatrically, then laughed. "Why are we still here?" Nods of confusion and one derisory snort later she laughed again. "Ok are we or are we not frakking commonwealth soldiers? Have we or have we not survived repeated balls ups throughout all of our careers." One wolf whistle and a lot of nods. "Are we going to give up.

When broken minds embrace any hypothetical god then what you get is a proportionally broken result.

Politicians? You can't vote for them and you can't strangle them.

Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of the toilet becomes a ritual.

The real problem is not in the Quran itself, but the accepted element of divine revelation that has enabled successive and rather dodgy regimes to use the Quran as an argument against freedom of speech or thought or freedom of anything. Thats the larger problem because if you walk into the global and deny freedom on the grounds that god didn't predict its evolution as a concept, then you can pretty much read a call for violence into a pingu anime or a winnie the pooh book

These hooves were made for walking.

You may have bats in your belfry but I am more concerned by what may be buried in your cellar.