It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

Change is the very fabric of our time.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.