Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Writers speak stench.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

I’m not a futurist.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.