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.
John BrunnerDon't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John BrunnerWhat in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
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 BrunnerExtremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
John Brunner