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.
John BrunnerWe fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
John BrunnerLove and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
John BrunnerThere are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner