I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.