“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
“Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying Arthur C. Clarke, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Robert Sheckley, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults.”
“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ”
“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.”
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”