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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

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I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

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Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 17th, 1948

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