Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous