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"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then 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."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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