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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
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"The world has gotten so interwoven."
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"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity."
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"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated."
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"A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas."
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"A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction."
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"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
Life
"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
Computer
"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
Science
"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them."
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"Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great)."
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"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want."
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"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."
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