John Brunner
John Brunner
John Brunner quotes about
should rational humans
Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
marvellous
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
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.
names humanity machines
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
years proud remember
You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
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.
stupid war responsibility
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
different conformity
Let's all be different same as me.
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.
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.
attitude opportunity simple
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?
theory evidence ifs
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
data impact truth-is
For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.