John Brunner
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infinitely
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
blood car cheat computers ensure group impossible income picks tax
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
evil phenomenon humans
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
mind want facts
It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.
technology zanzibar buttons
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
addiction joy causes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
names humanity machines
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
theory evidence ifs
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
rumor foundation santa
Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.
bullets helping faster
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
ambition people resentment
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
military epidemics race
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
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.