Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

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.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.