“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction — its essence — has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Information is not knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein
“As computers take over more and more of the work that human beings shouldn’t be doing in the first place – because it doesn’t utilize their brains, it stultifies and bores them to death –
there’s going to be nothing left for human beings to do but the more creative types of
endeavor.
― Isaac Asimov
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
― Aldous Huxley
“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”
― Roland Barthes
I just wanted to add to the meme pool on this one with something more meaningful.
“Time is the thing that everyone knows intimately – until you ask them to tell you about It.”
― David Z. Albert
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Allen Ginsberg
‘I consider that scarcity is the phenomenon in which we live,’ he replied. ‘It is impossible to suppress it without changing the conditions of existence, of what is real, of intelligence… Even here, among ourselves, there is scarcity in our conversation: scarcity of ideas, scarcity of understanding. I may not understand your questions or may answer them badly – that, too, is scarcity’
― Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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