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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."

"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."

"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."

"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."

"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."
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