My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.