The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

A good resolve will make any port.

The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

For me, I believe in God, God is real.