You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.