John Brunner
John Brunner
names humanity machines
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
firsts machines use
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
blood car cheat computers ensure group impossible income picks tax
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
infinitely
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
marvellous
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
anybody definitely lords masters public reminds society
On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large.
years proud remember
You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
new-york home heaven
I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.
stupid war responsibility
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
should rational humans
Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
different conformity
Let's all be different same as me.
people want way
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
children long rich
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
way casting should
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.