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

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.