102 Quotes by John Brunner

It’s the beginning of wisdom when you admit you’ve gone astray.

You don’t bother to memorise the literature – you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

I put it to you that no rule consciously invented by mankind since we acquired speech has force equivalent to those inherited from perhaps fifty, perhaps a hundred thousand generations of evolution in the wild state. I further suggest that the chief reason why modern society is in turmoil is that for too long we claimed that our special human talents could exempt us from the heritage written in our genes.