Era Quote by Jack McDevitt Download Open image “Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.” — Jack McDevitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Era Feature Fiction Fiction writers Internet Missed Modern Modern era Most Our Science Science fiction Writers Writing
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything,… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science… — Joseph Duda Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. — Bella Freud Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong.… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.” — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era. — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that makes it… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
I could have fought in any era and a lot of the old warriors feel I'm like an old-school fighter. — James Toney Copy Share Image
If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
The whole era of post-Partition and pre-liberalization fascinated me. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
