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We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too cr...

John Brunner

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too cr...

Tags: experimentation, nature

I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in...

John Brunner

I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in...

Tags: computers, first hacktivist, hacker folklore, hackers, hacking, hacktivism

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John Brunner may refer to:

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet (1842–1919), British industrialist and Liberal Member of Parliament
John L. Brunner (1929–1980), Pennsylvania politician
Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet (1865–1929), British Liberal Member of Parliament
John Brunner (author) (1934–1995), British author, mainly of science fiction

Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune out of selling us gadgets to purify it again. Why can't they be made to stra...

John Brunner

Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune out of selling us gadgets to purify it again. Why can't they be made to stra...

Intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.

John Brunner

Intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.

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

John Brunner

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

Tags: irony

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind?

John Brunner

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind?

Tags: environmental values

We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged to be absolutely rational. Cruel, if you like. People of good will, tolerant,...

John Brunner

We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged to be absolutely rational. Cruel, if you like. People of good will, tolerant,...

Tags: pacifism, tyrannicide

How right you are. She shivered. Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare t...

John Brunner

How right you are. She shivered. Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare t...

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We’re elements in a process that...

John Brunner

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We’re elements in a process that...

We are told that the meek shall inherit the earth. It follows that the meek are chosen of God. I shall try to be meek, not because I want the earth - you can keep it, after the way you've fucked it ar...

John Brunner

We are told that the meek shall inherit the earth. It follows that the meek are chosen of God. I shall try to be meek, not because I want the earth - you can keep it, after the way you've fucked it ar...

Tags: pollution

Our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preservin...

John Brunner

Our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preservin...

My degrees are scholarates, not mere doctorates. I’ve always been very proud of that. Like surgeons over in Britain, taking offense at being called Dr. So-and -so. … But it’s irrelevant, it’s superflu...

John Brunner

My degrees are scholarates, not mere doctorates. I’ve always been very proud of that. Like surgeons over in Britain, taking offense at being called Dr. So-and -so. … But it’s irrelevant, it’s superflu...

Eight or nine men were present

John Brunner

Eight or nine men were present

A sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can’t keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.

John Brunner

A sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can’t keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

John Brunner

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

Tags: wit

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

John Brunner

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

Tags: sociology, technology

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

John Brunner

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

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. So SHUT UP, do you hear...

John Brunner

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. So SHUT UP, do you hear...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, .

John Brunner

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, .

Tags: pain, scientists, suffering

True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in a cage of which the bars aren’t fixed, solid objects you can gnaw at or in despair batter...

John Brunner

True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in a cage of which the bars aren’t fixed, solid objects you can gnaw at or in despair batter...