There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

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

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.