John Brunner Quotes

Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote — I’d have cast a brick.

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

If the evidence says you’re wrong, you don’t have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

You will die, and I, and all we can create — why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

It’s the beginning of wisdom when you admit you’ve gone astray.

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

Toffler’s Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.

Next, the stalled cars had their windows opaqued with a cheap commercial compound used for etching glass, and slogans were painted on their doors. Some were long: THIS VEHICLE IS A DANGER TO LIFE AND LIMB. Many were short: IT STINKS! But the commonest of all was the universally known catchphrase: STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME!

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

Western culture is undergoing a process of transition from guilt-oriented, with a conscience, to shame-oriented, with a morbid fear of being found out.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

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