Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.
There was exactly one power base available to sustain the old style of government, Nick grunted. Organized crime.
The nation was tightly webbed in a net of interlocking data-channels, and a time-traveler from a century ago would have been horrified by the degree to which confidential information had been rendered...
Putain mais quelle fichue imagination je peux avoir ...
Nickie Haflinger
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...
It started with population. Not having a fixed breeding season was among the reasons why mankind achieved dominance; it kept our numbers topped up at an explosive rate. Past certain stage restrictive...
What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in sp...
Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.
Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room--it's fu...
Much earlier than Richardson, before World War I, in fact, Norman Angell had shown that the idea of fighting a war for profit was obsolete. The victors would pay a heavier cost than the losers. He was...
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...
He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a compensatory fashion, he was also free from certain other laws more c...
Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.
All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know.
We’ve always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down.
There’s an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election for proof of that. The public obvious...
You know Chad’s definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year’s model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after?
Toffler’s Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, How long, O Lord? How long? In his private estimation: not long now.