John Brunner
John Brunner
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opportunity ideas giving
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
way casting should
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
children long rich
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
your-side sides would-be
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
want environment automobile
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.
imagination christ
Christ, what an imagination I've got!
stress kind share
Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
firsts machines use
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
trouble excuse explaining
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
labels
I'm myself, not a label.
different conformity
Let's all be different same as me.
should rational humans
Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
mind excellence different
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.
marvellous
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.