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John Brunner quotes: You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary. You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.
John Brunner quotes: First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines. First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines.
John Brunner quotes: COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on. COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on.
John Brunner quotes: You don't bother to memorise the literature - you learn to read and keep a shelf of books. You don't bother to memorise the literature - you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.
John Brunner quotes: The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage! The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
John Brunner quotes: Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time. Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.
John Brunner quotes: We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.
John Brunner quotes: Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence. Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.
John Brunner quotes: 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. 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.
John Brunner quotes: People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends. People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
John Brunner quotes: What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
John Brunner quotes: I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods. I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
John Brunner quotes: And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please. And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.
John Brunner quotes: Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John Brunner quotes: 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. 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.
John Brunner quotes: If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
John Brunner quotes: Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures? Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
John Brunner quotes: 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. 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.
John Brunner quotes: You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
John Brunner quotes: If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence. If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
John Brunner quotes: It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
John Brunner quotes: To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
John Brunner quotes: 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. 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.
John Brunner quotes: Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about. Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.
John Brunner quotes: After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy. After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
John Brunner quotes: The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise. The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
John Brunner quotes: It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray. It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.
John Brunner quotes: There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner quotes: Let's all be different same as me. Let's all be different same as me.
John Brunner quotes: 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. 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.
John Brunner quotes: I'm myself, not a label. I'm myself, not a label.
John Brunner quotes: Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order. Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
John Brunner quotes: Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work. Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.
John Brunner quotes: "Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes." "Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."
John Brunner quotes: Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation, the radio said. Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation, the radio said.
John Brunner quotes: Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
John Brunner quotes: To go faster you must slow down. To go faster you must slow down.
John Brunner quotes: Christ, what an imagination I've got! Christ, what an imagination I've got!
John Brunner quotes: UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

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