The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
From Larry Niven
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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