Jerry Pournelle

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5 total works indexed

1. General atomic and molecular electronic structure system

   · 1993 · cited 19,080x

2. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,734x

3. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

   · 2014 · cited 9,169x

4. Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria

   · 2011 · cited 7,665x

5. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,784x

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Quotes

• “In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.”
• “The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.”
• “To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. (Note: This quote, although found in the 1985 sci-fi novel, 'Lucifer's Hammer', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, may be erroneously attributed to Pournelle. As this quote can also be found in the Preface of Henri Poincare's "Science and Hypothesis" the 1952 Dover abridged edition)”
• “If there aren't any whaling ships, then whales may survive. Anything short of that is so much hot air.”
• “I thought MAD was truly insane when we first adopted it, and I haven't changed my opinion.”
• “To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.”

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