21 Quotes by John Sladek

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.