John Brunner Short Quotes

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Governments don't change things, she said. Only time does that.

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It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

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So not only the world, but he himself, was different from what he had imagined.

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COINCIDENCE You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

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Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation, the radio said.

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

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Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.

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You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

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You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

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Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

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What in God's name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

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Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

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Ah, go to hell!
That's a remarkably Christian attitude, Donald. Both meaningless and barbaric.

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We've always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

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At night, when he lay down to sleep, he felt that his brain was resonating with the heartbeat of the planet.

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To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

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UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

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We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

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He had decided it was better to be a volcano than a man; at least one set no store by what one's acts destroyed.

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After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

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I think, Chad grunted, that if he [Shalmaneser, the computer] really is intelligent nobody will recognise the fact. Because we aren't.

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

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,
But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,
Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.

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I haven't changed my mind, if that's what you're getting at, he said at length. The stench and crackle of burning boats was vivid to him.

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They surely are condemned to Hell
Who rule their lives by greed and lust
And Satan waits for those as well
Who in machines repose their trust.

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I don't believe in God, said the captain. I wouldn't care to believe in anyone who could make such a stinking lousy species as the one you belong to.

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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.

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First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

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