I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

The future is not to be forecast, but created.