In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
From Larry Niven
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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