It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

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

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.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

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.