John Brunner Quotes - Page 2

There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.