John Brunner
John Brunner
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infinitely
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
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.
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?
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.
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.
labels
I'm myself, not a label.
different conformity
Let's all be different same as me.
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.