Quotes About Philip K. Dick

It's—it's a variable." Kaplan was shaking, white-lipped and pale. "Something from which no inference can be made. The man from the past. The machines can't deal with him. The variable man!

It is the human phosphene response to full-spectrum white, to pure sunlight.

Thank you, Tim Leary, Fat thought. You and your promotion of the joy of expanded consciousness through dope.

Religion, Sebastian thought wearily. More ins and outs, more angles, than ordinary commerce.

No science in it. Nor set in future. Science fiction deals with future, in particular future where science has advanced over now. Book fits neither premise." "But," Paul said, "it deals with alternate present.

Thank you, Mr. Bibleman, the robot said. 'I am very proud of you.

This is George Robertson," I said. "Mortimer Snead told me there'd be somebody there to talk to me. Maybe Lefty." "Snead?" the cartoon

The phoce, now, seemed to have fallen deeper into his beer-induced trance;

Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.

The Four-Faced Visitors of…Ezekiel, by Arthur Orton We are told from our Sunday

The Davids were coming out in groups, clutching their teddy bears, their thin knobby legs pumping as they ran up the steps to the surface.

And did not like what he saw. Beneath the doctor's suavity there lay a coldness, something fixed and hard. This was no ordinary person, and Erickson felt uneasy.

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

She waited, smoking, watching him with a feminine vigil of intensity and acuity.

He gave up; the false cat had ceased functioning, so evidently the short — if that was what ailed the thing — had finished off the power supply and basic drive-train.

Dreamless, like an amoeba, he, too, slept.

tiene por casualidad una droga cuyo efecto, en unos términos semejantes a los del órgano Hammerstein, corresponda a algunos fragmentos del movimiento coral de la Novena de Beethoven?

A bad emotion, he knew. Curiosity was, especially in Party activities, often a terminal state careerwise.

When a theme is harped on too much you get parody. When we make fun of a stale theme we say we've japed it.

Para Rick Deckard, un robot humaniode fugitivo, equipado con una inteligencia artificial superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni que fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.

If there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect.

Could it be that I have bad breath, Tom? Well, Ed, if you're worried about that, try today's new Ubik, with powerful germicidal foaming action, guaranteed safe when taken as directed.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.