As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of…

Michael Crichton

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs,…

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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

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The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about…

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One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

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Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

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This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

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