Science Fictionisms, 10...

"The future isn't what it used to be."
Arthur C. Clarke

"I am an optimist; anyone interested in the future has to be; otherwise, he would simply shoot himself."
Arthur C. Clarke

[Science fiction] is a concerned art form, for even in its shallowest version, it deals with tomorrow & the potentialities of man's place in it...I write it because it refuses not to be written."
Harlan Ellison

"As long as men worship the Caesars & Napoleons, Caesars & Napoleons will duly rise & make them miserable."
Aldous Huxley

"Men who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship."
H. G. Wells

"It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Comedians & politicians each tell the audience what it wants to hear. The difference is that the audience laughs at the comedian & the politician laughs at the audience."
Alexis A. Gilliland

"Don't assume merely because someone is the head of state of a country, he is also sane."
George Scithers