Quotes by John Brunner

John Brunner

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

Cynical

Eye

Pay

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

Children

Long

Rich

Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that’s in short supply can’t be carved up and shared without destroying it.

Giving

Ideas

Opportunity

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Different

Excellence

Mind

Christ, what an imagination I’ve got!

Christ

Imagination

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

Excuse

Explaining

Trouble

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

Kind

Stress

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

Firsts

Machines

Use

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.

Data

Impact

Truth Is

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Ambition

People

Resentment

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Addiction

Airplane

Ambition

Attitude

Automobile

Believe

Bullets

Buttons

Casting

Causes

Change

Cheat

Children

Christ

Conformity

Confused

Cynical

Dangerous

Data

Different

Environment

Epidemics

Evidence

Evil

Excellence

Excuse

Explaining

Eye

Facts

Faster

Firsts

Foundation

Giving

Hate

Heaven

Helping

Home

Humanity

Humans

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Impact

Joy

Kind

Labels

Learning

Long

Machines

Military

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Quotes by John Brunner

John Brunner

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

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

Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that’s in short supply can’t be carved up and shared without destroying it.

Christ, what an imagination I’ve got!

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

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

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.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

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