 Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. |
| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. |
| John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
| I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. |
| All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. Topics: Computer |
| Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. |
| Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Topics: Education |
| Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. |
| From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. |
| No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. |
| The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. |
| It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Topics: Death |
| Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. |
| Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. |
| I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. |
| If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. |
| Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. |
| I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Topics: Computer |
