Quotes About Ellison

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

But on the other hand, it would be a great mistake to assume that the dead are absolutely powerless.

Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.

My name is Peter Wheatstraw, I'm the Devil's only son-in-law

He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

Dangerous Visions, which had, almost single-handedly, changed the way readers thought about science fiction. Since Ellison had been at least partially successful

I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.

I'm so excited to be part of the environment that David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross have built at Skydance.

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

A few of Ellison's short stories from the 1940s and 1950s were widely anthologized over the years. After a while, it became generally known that he was at work on another novel. Though he remained aware ever afterward of the authority 'Invisible Man' gave to him, no second novel followed his brilliant debut in 1952.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That's my aim and what I see as my mission.

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

Ashamed apologies and a gentle thank you. I do not digress.

David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled "The Trouble with Tribbles"?)

In 1965, I was entertaining author Norman Spinrad in my itty-bitty Los Angeles treehouse, coyly called "Ellison Wonderland," from the book of the same title.

Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.

I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

Where is the B. who didn't at all like speculative fiction writers, with the exception of Margaret Atwood and the Jewish triumvirs: Asimov, Ellison, and Tidhar?" "Really?" I say. "Tidhar? Jesus Christ." "Yes," she screams. "Tidhar! You loved Tidhar!

Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't do anything but self destruct, he later said

Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don't subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath.

Although he always talked about technology and Oracle with passion and intensity, he didn't have the methodical relentlessness that made Bill Gates so formidable and feared. By his own admission, Ellison was not an obsessive grinder like Gates: "I am a sprinter. I rest, I sprint, I rest, I sprint again.