science-fiction

There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardships__hallenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldn__ stop. He had to endure. The path had not changed. It was he who had changed.

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.

What is Science Fiction? It is the absence of governance and political arrangements in worlds where advanced technology marches onwards. Petty politics and primal instincts continue to dominate while scientific advancement continues. This is our problem today as well: our brightest minds devote themselves to science but shun governance and politics. So as in each catastrophe conjured and contemplated in science fiction, we run the risk of cosmic destruction, lest our greatest minds turn to resolving the outstanding problems of politics and governance first.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer - if the information they base that decision on is wrong. People don't want the truth [when] it is complicated. They don't want to spend years debating an issue. They want it homogenized, sanitized, and above all, simplified into terms they can understand...Governments are often criticized for moving slowly, but that deliberateness, it turns out, is their strength. They take time to think through complex problems before they act. People, however, are different. People react first from the gut and then from the head...give that knee-jerk reflex real power to make its overwhelming will known as a national mandate instantly and you can cause a political riot. Combine these sins - simplification of information and instant, visceral democratic mandates - and you lose the ability to cool down. There is no longer deliberation time between events that may or may not be true and our reaction to them. Policy becomes instinct rather than thought.

What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.

Doesn__ he look just like a ring wraith?_ she said thoughtfully. __re you kidding?_ replied Cathy, __ most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!_ __o, from Lord of the Rings,_ said Sue impatiently. __'m sorry,_ snorted Cathy, __ don't watch pornographic material." __ave you never read a book?!_ Sue snapped. __t's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic._ __oes sound like a small man,_ she replied, __an't even face his marriage problems full on.

It's a long story. Want a refill?""No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?""Right here.""Well, push it.""Me? You offered to cook.""Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger""As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.