Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
Stupidity is always a capital crime.
Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That’s what we have to count on.
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.
The majority is always sane.
I’d repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim.
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Boredom is my worst enemy. It’s killed a lot of my friends, but it won’t get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
Never tell a computer to forget it.
That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
Mother Nature doesn’t care if you’re having fun.