John Brunner Quotes

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• What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
• To go faster you must slow down.
• We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
• After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
• If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
• It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
• Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to…
• Christ, what an imagination I've got!
• Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those…
• "Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."
• First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can…
• It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
• to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
• There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
• I'm myself, not a label.
• Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
• What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of…

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