John Brunner
John Brunner
theory evidence ifs
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
data impact truth-is
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.
military epidemics race
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
people cheat unfair
UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.
ambition people resentment
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?
bullets helping faster
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
people television world
Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.
rumor foundation santa
Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.
addiction joy causes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
morning views long
Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
your-side sides would-be
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.
want environment automobile
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.
imagination christ
Christ, what an imagination I've got!
stress kind share
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.