Quotes About Progress

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Where do we go from here? Would books help us? Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

There are three phrases that make possible the world of writing about the world of not-yet (you can call it science fiction or speculative fiction; you can call it anything you wish) and they are simple phrases: What if . . . ? If only . . . If this goes on

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines. Wars got bigger and bigger and finally killed Earth. That

A young reader finding this book today, or the day after tomorrow, is going to have to imagine first a past, and then a future that belongs to that past.

I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the "parlour families" today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not.

I been figuring, what to put in. Motion pictures? Radios? Stereoscopic viewers? All those in one place so any man can run his hand over it and smile and say, 'Yes, sir, that's happiness.

we're the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass.

Those who don't build must burn

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.

You only fail if you stop writing.

The zipper displaces the button, and a man lacks that much time to think while dressing at dawn...

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.

You fail, only if you stop writing.

If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went.

Belki bin y?l içinde atlamak için daha küçük uçurumlar seçeriz.

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so

A machine, now, to help boys change from peach fuzz to briar bramble, girls from toadstools to nectarine.

Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here. -Guy Montag