The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.