"You don't think progress goes in a straight……" — Frederik Pohl
"You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb."
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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl
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That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in:…
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning,…
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change…
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do…
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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means…
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that…
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as…
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What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.'…
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One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives…
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The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social,…
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