102 Quotes by John Brunner

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

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.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

To go faster you must slow down.