John Brunner Quotes

You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines.

COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on.

You don't bother to memorise the literature - you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.

You will die, and I, and all we can create - why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.

Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

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.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.

You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote - I'd have cast a brick.

Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.

It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Let's all be different same as me.

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.

I'm myself, not a label.

Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation, the radio said.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

To go faster you must slow down.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.