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There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time . . . . We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry, the doughboy, the duckfoot, the foot soldier who goes where the enemy is and takes him on in person. We've been doing it, with changes in weapons but very little change in our trade, at least since the time five thousand years ago when the foot sloggers of Sargon the Great forced the Sumerians to cry "Uncle!" Maybe they'll be able to do without us someday. Maybe some mad enius with myopia, a bulging forehead, and a cybernetic mind will devise a weapon that can go down a hole, pick out the opposition, adn force it to surrender or die--without killing that gang of your own people they've got imprisoned down there. I wouldn't know; I'm not a genius, I'm an M.I. In the meantime, until they build a machine to replace us, my mates can handle that job--and I might be some help on it, too.


Robert A. Heinlein


#precision #war #change

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.


Simon Pegg


#bludgeoning #instinct #just #more #precision

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.


Norman Ralph Augustine


#available #base #conclusion #data #give

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.


Gil Kane


#deep #focus #i #i think #lack

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.


Bertrand Russell


#along #anything #go #i #i do

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.


William Safire


#color #greater #i #more #new






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