I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.