Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

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.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

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.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.