The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

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

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

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.