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Jerry Pournelle

"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is your future that really matters."

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"We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present."

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Akshay Vasu

"If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday, we are already in it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!"

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Akshay Vasu

"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

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Akshay Vasu

"Future is the most difficult problem of our era."

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Akshay Vasu

"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."

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"You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!"

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Akshay Vasu

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

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Akshay Vasu

"He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream."

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Jerry Pournelle
"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."

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Jerry Pournelle
"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."

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Jerry Pournelle
"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."

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Jerry Pournelle
"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."

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Jerry Pournelle
"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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Jerry Pournelle
"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."

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Jerry Pournelle
"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."

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Jerry Pournelle
"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."

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Jerry Pournelle
"There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years."

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Jerry Pournelle
"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."

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