The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

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

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

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

Science is the only religion of mankind.