"... I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
— Ray Bradbury

"Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God."
— Johnny Hart

"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."
— Ray Bradbury

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons)

"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

"Change happens very slow and very sudden."
— Dorothy Bryant (The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You)

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
— The Seventh Doctor

"I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.
1LT Michael O'Neal"
— John Ringo (A Hymn Before Battle (Posleen War, #1))

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

"General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else."
— Marvin Lee Minsky

"Мы будем делать Добро из Зла, потому что его больше не из чего делать."
— Arkady Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic)

"Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters "forget" to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically I'm supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. I'm sure Allah gets the spirit of what I'm doing here. "
— Lyda Morehouse (Messiah Node)

"I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca."
— Lyda Morehouse (Fallen Host)

"If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?"
— Pat Murphy

"So it goes. "
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties.

Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, which will guide your actions and thoughts. It’s a top down way of thinking; start with the big picture and derive rules for living. Fundamental knowledge is static. Even the derived rules rarely change.

Technos work from the bottom up. They build a baseline of observations and formulate theories to explain these phenomena. Nothing is sacred; with new observations, theories are discarded or modified to fit the facts.

Technos and clerics; how could they not be in conflict?
Dan Ronco’s Diary, 2016
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— Dan Ronco (Unholy Domain)

"Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?"
— Lyda Morehouse (Apocalypse Array)

"Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel."
— Lynda Williams

"May the gods ignore you."
— Lynda Williams

"Blood makes lousy detergent."
— Lynda Williams

"El Hombre de negro huía a través del deseirto y el pistolero iba en pos de él."
— Stephen King