 As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. |
| I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. |
| I love superconductors. |
| I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. |
| I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself. |
| And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. |
| My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. |
| In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. |
| Everything starts as somebody's daydream. |
| Treat your life like something to be sculpted. |
| I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. |
| Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! |
| SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. |
| I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. |
| Anything beats an expensive stack of paper. |
| We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. |
| We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. |
| But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. |
| We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. |
| In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. |
