Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it’s done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It’s a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don’t get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

They’re very strong in memory. Didn’t do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

If all else fails, there’s always print or web zines.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

People say it took a lot of courage to do what I did, but I felt like I was backed into a corner. This came along and I jumped at the chance.

Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

It’s very much like filmmaking always is-you’re always asked to do something that you’re not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and...

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

The game isn’t over till the clock says zero.

I think what’s known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human...

It’s also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we’re familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a...

On the molecular scale, you find it’s reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We’re so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we’re living day to day.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers’ co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

It was a glimpse into some kind of wonderful world where electricity and mathematics and engineering and nice diagrams all came together.

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.