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.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

To go faster you must slow down.

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

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

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.

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.