We’ve been amazingly lucky, which is another way of saying we’ve kept our eyes and minds open and responded when something turned up. - John Brunner

I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer there’ll be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!

Take it for granted that the government will disregard long-term dangers-such as those affecting the environment-in order to cling to power; that the citizenry will do the same because thinking is too much like hard work; and then the handful of Cassandras are proved right, they will be held to blame and very likely stoned or shot.

and that person might be Nickie Haflinger!