My First Duty To Write

Every Marvel Of Our Age Arose Out Of The Critical Give And Take Of An Open Society. No Other Civilization Ever Managed To Incorporate This Crucial Innovation, Weaving It Into Daily Life. And If You Disagree With This... Say So!

Predicting Has A Spotty Record In Science Fiction. I've Had Some Failures. On The Other Hand, I Also Predicted The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Rise Of Fundamentalist Islam... And I'm Not Happy To Be Right In All Of Those Cases

You Don't Have Conversations With Microprocessors. You Tell Them What To Do, Then Helplessly Watch The Disaster When They Take You Literally!

Prison For The Crime Of Puberty -- That Was How Secondary School Had Seemed.

Where Subtlety Fails Us We Must Simply Make Do With Cream Pies.