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I love superconductors.
Fear is the brother of hate.
The majority is always sane.
Ethics change with technology.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
Anything that can go wrong, will
Any damn fool can predict the past.
Never tell a computer to forget it.
We learn only to ask more questions.
Stupidity is always a capital crime.
Sometimes there's no point in giving up.
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
I don't have a strong interest in history.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.