Books Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Heinlein, Robert A.—Job: A Comedy of Justice

Posted August 3, 2004, 2:21 p.m.

King, Stephen—The Stand (Complete & Uncut Edition)

Posted February 29, 2004, 2:20 p.m.

Heinlein, Robert A.—I Will Fear No Evil

Posted January 10, 2004, 2:18 p.m.

Clancy, Tom—The Hunt for Red October

Posted January 8, 2004, 2:16 p.m.

Adams, Douglas—The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Posted January 8, 2004, 2:16 p.m.

A Rhyming Analytical Contrast of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Posted June 1, 2000, 7:07 p.m.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Evil can be eradicated from the world at large only when it is eradicated from the hearts and lives of individual human beings. Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Movement is attributed to the mover rather than the one moved; wherefore homicide is not ascribed to the stone, but to the thrower.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Virtue is not always amiable.

The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman’s motherhood.

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life.

I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgement.

In practice, self-described ‘purists’ are often ill informed about what actually constitutes good usage.

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. . . . It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

The family, based on the marital commitment of husband and wife, is the original and best ministry of health, education, and welfare.

As an ancient axiom states, the Church makes the Eucharist, and the Eucharist makes the Church.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

You know, Gina, Apple [Computer Inc.] is like a ship. That ship is loaded with treasure, but there’s a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three. There is no alternative but to start again, smarting but smarter, and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

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Heinlein, Robert A.—Job: A Comedy of Justice

King, Stephen—The Stand (Complete & Uncut Edition)

Fleming, Ian—Dr. No

Shatner, William—Man O’ War

Orwell, George—1984

Heinlein, Robert A.—I Will Fear No Evil

Fleming, Ian—Casino Royale

Clancy, Tom—The Hunt for Red October

Adams, Douglas—The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Bradbury, Ray—Fahrenheit 451

A Rhyming Analytical Contrast of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales