Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.
Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.
To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
In a tough situation, don’t avoid acting just because it’s easier or comfortable. Don’t lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.
I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.
Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
…the movies are most people’s exposure to ideas about the future.
As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical – thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast – Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.