“at its best science fiction is about us and our Faustian bargain with our big brains, which dragged us out of the trees but may yet drag us into the volcano.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
“I was going to be an astronomer, because when you were an astronomer you didn’t have to be in bed by ten.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
― Mort
― Mort
“Remember the transatlantic phone calls, usually made at Christmas, which were a matter of a vast sum of money and a lot of technical negotiation? And then we spent a lot of time saying, “It’s dark here, is it dark where you are?” and marvelled at the fact that you could have two times at the same time. But recently I rang home while walking through Perth, Australia, to check that the cat was okay. I just dialled the number. It wasn’t very exciting. I didn’t even ask if it was dark.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
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