Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

Computerization eliminates the middleman