Patrick Nielsen Hayden quote: "There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts."

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fict...
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just dow...
PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fun...
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it&#...
PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer sta...
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our ...
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regu...
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and ...
PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely bl...
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profes...
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We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases
PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN

Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishi...
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thin...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN

Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
HELEN NIELSEN

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
LESLIE NIELSEN

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A ...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

It's a very, very tricky situation. I haven't said yes to either of them.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get ove...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists con...
MICHAEL NIELSEN

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I&#...
LESLIE NIELSEN

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-d...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN

The best Web sites are better than reality.
JAKOB NIELSEN

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
A. NIELSEN

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more ti...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Total restoration of a flood-damaged car can be as extensive and expensive as restoring a classic ca...
JOHN NIELSEN

There is a huge opportunity to do more with online video. The increase in broadband access is making...
CHRIS NIELSEN

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Lau...
LESLIE NIELSEN

I think that?s the end-game, the Holy Grail. Where you can electronically sit down at any PC in the ...
TODD NIELSEN

...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists."
"I find that...
SUSIN NIELSEN

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t...
LESLIE NIELSEN

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the righ...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los A...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Users spend most of their time on other websites.
JAKOB NIELSEN

The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN

Go play the game because you love it, not because you want to be great at it.
SEAN NIELSEN

Dracula: Dead and Loving it.
LESLIE NIELSEN

You're excited? You should feel my nipples!
LESLIE NIELSEN

Leslie has the ability to do two things: he can be menacing and scary and he can be incredibly stupi...
LESLIE NIELSEN

It's a different ballgame, ... It'll be funny, interesting. As actors, we're doing our own writing.
LESLIE NIELSEN

With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anyb...
LESLIE NIELSEN

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf, ... There goes the Nike account.
LESLIE NIELSEN

In the 35 years I've been around, the seniors have always done a good job. And we still depend on th...
BOB NIELSEN

I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.
RICK NIELSEN

We do Springville first because the Mapleton Junior High will be finished in fall 2006.
RICK NIELSEN

I like the biplanes, ... They don't have (cockpit) coverings. They're just out in the open.
ERIK NIELSEN

We had our opportunities, but we just didn't get the job done. Lindsay was outstanding, she didn't d...
CRAIG NIELSEN

This party kind of sums him up.
BILL NIELSEN

It's about brand building and getting these games in the hands of our 14- to 24-year-old male target...
BILL NIELSEN

We're excited to partner with the Big Ten Conference. We're thrilled to support women's athletics an...
BILL NIELSEN

We still think it's a great event and a great sport. Its recognition with the public keeps getting b...
BILL NIELSEN

It's been an excellent relationship for us. Their events are doing very well for us. When you go to ...
BILL NIELSEN

It stuck out. And you could squish on it. I was worried it would go further. It was just an annoyanc...
STEVE NIELSEN

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of cr...
HOWIE NIELSEN

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
LESLIE NIELSEN

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open ...
MICHAEL NIELSEN

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup a...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

TrustE icons, ... are useless. No one understands what they mean.
JAKOB NIELSEN

It's just teak everywhere,
JOHN NIELSEN

People all over the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of empowerment.
JAKOB NIELSEN

We fed cattle for a long time. Dad has a good eye for sorting cattle. I was always proud of him. We ...
DEAN NIELSEN

It seemed like the feed truck always broke down on Saturday.
DEAN NIELSEN

The question is, do the voters prefer a Democrat or a warmed-over Republican?
DEAN NIELSEN

The valuation for this stock and optimism is based on expectations for success in online gaming. But...
DENNIS NIELSEN

This is a major new revenue stream that has helped support the stock at current levels.
DENNIS NIELSEN

The persistency of earnings and revenue growth is what attracts investors.
DENNIS NIELSEN

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and y...
LESLIE NIELSEN

She had real good placement with her ball, and we played good defense behind her.
CRAIG NIELSEN

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!
LESLIE NIELSEN

Both films are real hard sells,
CONNIE NIELSEN

I've actually had a meeting and I've made it clear I would be interested in returning, but I have no...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.
CONNIE NIELSEN

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

Don't call me Shirley!
LESLIE NIELSEN

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on th...
CONNIE NIELSEN

But they dressed the same as they do here.
DAVID NIELSEN

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers...
DAVID NIELSEN

It was hung in 'tobacco houses' for six to eight weeks. The term 'tobacco barn' came later.
DAVID NIELSEN

They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN

But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.
D.B. NIELSEN

The rhetoric was not there in the way it has been in the past, but we're still looking at a hike in ...
ERIK NIELSEN

They were touring this year with a clarinetist, so I sent it to them, ... They agreed to do it.
ERIK NIELSEN

I actually sent them the piece, which they considered last year but didn't have enough time (to rehe...
ERIK NIELSEN

It was a fun experience and it went quite well,
ERIK NIELSEN

I waited and waited for a year and a half for them to announce who won, ... Jim Jeffords' office had...
ERIK NIELSEN

I like the Army (planes) best, ... They're cool.
ERIK NIELSEN

That's a pretty good basketball team.
ERIC NIELSEN

Before, once it has been aired, it's gone, and it doesn't really contribute to our knowledge space.
JAKOB NIELSEN

Investors want to understand what a company does, ... Tech companies seem incapable of explaining th...
JAKOB NIELSEN

[First, most rely too much on unnecessarily complex charts. With professional investors using their ...
JAKOB NIELSEN

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so muc...
JAKOB NIELSEN

You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.
JAKOB NIELSEN

People give up if the item is not found where it's expected to be,
JAKOB NIELSEN

Animation is used as a blunt weapon,
JAKOB NIELSEN

The Internet is about usability, ... The computer industry has been able to ship difficult-to-use pr...
JAKOB NIELSEN

People pay horribly little attention to their intranets, ... People used to think intranets were whe...
JAKOB NIELSEN

Okay, even if we disagree on that point, we still need to keep living our lives, don't we?...
SUSIN NIELSEN

I'm a birder. I've been using that as an excuse to go wandering around the world. I stand in the for...
HOWIE NIELSEN

I'm trying to get away.
HOWIE NIELSEN

We came back here to raise a baby.
HOWIE NIELSEN

Southeast Asia is changing so rapidly culturally and environmentally. Southeast Asia is just being c...
HOWIE NIELSEN

Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.
LESLIE NIELSEN

I myself don't think she has anything surprising to say, but I'm not working on the strategy for eit...
MARK NIELSEN

If Tom plays well, he's going to win. You'd hate to blow a lead like that. That's for sure.
LONNIE NIELSEN

Bad way to finish, but I'll try to remember the first 17 holes.
LONNIE NIELSEN

I think there's a real bond among us club pros or amateurs who come out and play against people we'v...
LONNIE NIELSEN

It's a dream come true for somebody like me, from where I was coming from.
LONNIE NIELSEN

I was just so far out of my element out there.
LONNIE NIELSEN

There's a little bond among us club pros, or longtime amateurs. To get a chance to play against big-...
LONNIE NIELSEN

They've been cutting back on real actors for a long time,
LESLIE NIELSEN

You could respond to it on a very human basis.
LESLIE NIELSEN

We're definitely not being pushed or thrown out of this one. We're moving out because it takes more ...
KAI NIELSEN

We've haven't heard or felt anything at all; absolutely nothing.
KAI NIELSEN

It is hard to say how much we are liable to pay.
KAI NIELSEN

My interest in the education of our students and my previous work all goes together.
JULIE NIELSEN

Making sure curriculum is researched based to ensure it isn't a fad is very important when working t...
JULIE NIELSEN

My children are old enough that I have more time. It is time to step up.
JULIE NIELSEN

It was a really, really heavy and intense experience for all of us.
JOSH NIELSEN

I remember hearing one of our songs on (the BV station) while I was driving and being really thrown ...
JOSH NIELSEN

We've written some songs that could be played on country stations, even though we don't consider the...
JOSH NIELSEN

I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to ...
JOSH NIELSEN

They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever...
JEFF NIELSEN

There is some very impressive individuals, but it's a huge change in tradition. You've got the minds...
JEFF NIELSEN

You are making a change, but you've got more than 300 people making a change too, so you have to mak...
JEFF NIELSEN

It's a good feeling, you are taking over a big and strong agency. It's a big city, and a big job.
JEFF NIELSEN

I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to so...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just beca...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein i...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Cong...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how th...
TOM HAYDEN

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to su...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of histo...
TOM HAYDEN

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the ...
TOM HAYDEN

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than y...
STERLING HAYDEN

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. Ther...
TOM HAYDEN

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of differen...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I don't want to be overly dramatic, but Iraq and Syria are gone, and they aren't coming back...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of...
MATTHEW HAYDEN

When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who&...
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their busin...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of Americ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imit...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

We want people to be as up to date as possible.
BILL HAYDEN

We believe it's an important health issue.
BILL HAYDEN

will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuin...
BILL HAYDEN

People should be concerned about this information. That's why we want to have steps taken immediatel...
BILL HAYDEN

We need to come out strong and stay strong, because at the end it didn't play out the way we wanted ...
BILL HAYDEN

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing m...
BILL HAYDEN

In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.
BILL HAYDEN

This is a long-term problem and we know it will take a while to fix.
BILL HAYDEN

All together, we played more as a team.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â It seemed to come together at the end, but...
BILL HAYDEN

They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anythi...
BILL HAYDEN

The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasona...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they le...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
STERLING HAYDEN

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wro...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambiti...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I a...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very careful...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
TOM HAYDEN

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY

When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY

One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, th...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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