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.

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

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

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.

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

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.

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.