“Giving orders you know won’t be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.”

~David Weber (2014). “Safehold Boxed Set 1: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed”, p.1045, Macmillan

American science fiction and fantasy author David Weber was born on this day in 1952.