As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.