What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease. ' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.
Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.