Quotes about "Time & Aging"

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store. ”

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. ”

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ”

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ”

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ”

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction. ”

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. ”

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. ”

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. ”

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ”