When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix; some go both ways.
Roughly one-third of the planet already lived in chronic poverty, according to United Nations statistics. Farmer pointed out that through the spread of disease, illiteracy, and consumption of resource...
IBM and other mainframe companies spent more money selling their products and serving their customers than they did in actually building their machines. They sold their computers to people who were ac...
I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls ambivalence, the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortun...
He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
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The little room was a forest of equipment now. A couple of months had passed since Eagle had been cloned. Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time m...
The central belief of liberation theology - to provide a preferential option for the poor...providing medicine in the places that needed it the most...
So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.
No one keeps track of the hours we work, said Ken Holberger. He grinned. That’s not altruism on Data General’s part. If anybody kept track, they’d have to pay us a hell of a lot more than they do. Yet...
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.
It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent...
It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;
I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don't dislike victory...
He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccu...
Change the world? Of course they could. He really believed this, and he really believed that a small group of committed individuals could do it. He liked to say of PIH, People think we’re unrealistic....
The Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps...
Paul's face grew serious. 'I think whenever a people has enormous resources, it is easy for them to call themselves democratic. I think of myself more as a physician than an American. We belong to the...