I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.