We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
J. Michael Straczynski
Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON The danger in coming back at that is you're repeating it. Now, what you may try to do is come back a... DAN HEDGES It's very, very important for people to get a sense of what the potentialities of people really are,... GERHARD WEINBERG To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN We set out to analyze the state of OLED manufacturing and how it affects the development of the mark... KIMBERLY ALLEN People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got r... PETER F. HAMILTON What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the wo... BERNARD WERBER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first lo... ALBERT EINSTEIN You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the... NALO HOPKINSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL The social context of the UK is more open to the future, the old pessimism has been scrubbed and the... CHARLES STROSS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in. GAVIN NEWSOM Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body a... AARON RODGERS I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the futur... WILLIAM SHATNER Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... JEAN M. AUEL Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in M... ANNA M. AQUINO It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to wh... ELIZABETH MOON Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic... RIDLEY SCOTT Historically when people have been scared and people have been nervous, there's been an uptick in sc... DAVID GOYER In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure... RANSOM RIGGS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model... EDWARD DE BONO Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other. ARTHUR C. CLARKE All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd... PAOLO BACIGALUPI There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu... ARTHUR C. CLARKE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL How do you know about the world is real?... How?... How you don't think that you are locke... DEYTH BANGER You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your... DAVID TWOHY I think that our society still has some prejudice in it, and baseball is a reflection of the society... JIMMIE LEE SOLOMON I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti... CONNIE WILLIS Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door. ANNALEE NEWITZ As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You ... ALAN MOORE I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting c... KATEE SACKHOFF It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from now, [a time] in which for 18 year... ALFONSO CUARON It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from now, [a time] in which for 18 yea... ALFONSO CUARON Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. RUDY RUCKER Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness ... JERRY B. JENKINS When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the futu... PETER MCWILLIAMS When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the futu... PETER MCWILLIAMS Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house. GINA GREENLEE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see... BILL RICHARDSON I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - ... ALAN ARKIN We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living... JOSH FOX There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has g... MICHAEL KEATON In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. RIDLEY SCOTT I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future... WILLIAM GIBSON The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C... J. AUGUST RICHARDS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sen... EUDORA WELTY Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to... JOHN ROMANIELLO I feel as if I've gone past the lukewarm stage that Jesus talked about in the book of Revelations an... ANNA M. AQUINO I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when y... ANNA M. AQUINO People are now beginning to voice what we've all been seeing with our own eyes -- the majority of pe... LESTER HOLT It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable net... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. FRANK HERBERT Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Ultimately, it i... WERNER ERHARD I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring ba... KATHRYN PEREZ It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from now, [a time] in which for 1... ALFONSO CUARON When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our c... CHARLIE GONZALEZ We don't know how big the (Rita's) impact will be but the market is being quite rightly a bit cautio... ADRIAN DARLEY When you look at the US, energy and climate policy are really framed in a security of supply context... CHRISTIAN EGENHOFER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The idea behind the show, ... was to take nine people and say, 'Nine people look out into the blackn... JOSS WHEDON There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is e... PETER THIEL The difference today was obviously finishing. We put the ball into the back of the net and that make... CHARLIE KENDRICK Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them... THEODORE J. KACZYNSKI At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of scienc... GEORGE TAKEI Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. Th... DAVID BRIN All I can tell you is it that it will have an impact. But how much of an impact, we just don't know ... ALLARD BEUTEL Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; ... DAVID CRYSTAL We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whet... TONY BLAIR It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically... JACOB BRONOWSKI It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture int... MAYA ANGELOU I think it's a great advantage. It allows you to get a gauge of where you're at, get some people hea... DANIEL SULLIVAN I think the statistics bear out its negative impact and harmful impact on families. We feel an oblig... PAUL CHITWOOD Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but pro... DAVID RAKOFF We can put the fountain in context. People forget that they can use it. DAN HURLEY When life becomes too complicated and we feel overwhelmed, it’s often useful just to stand back an... DALAI LAMA XIV You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE We tell them about Earth science, astronomy, plant science and marine science. But what we don't do ... HARRY ORF The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Science fiction is what we point to when we say it. DAMON KNIGHT It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA
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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes... MICHAEL J. FOX As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a... MICHAEL J. FOX [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL This is heavy, Doc. MICHAEL J. FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN