It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. - Arthur C. Clarke

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias — boredom.

The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

"["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn."