Quotes About Futurism

Long live the new flesh.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the 70s to the mid-80s. I was very influenced by futurism and reading a lot of Marge Piercy.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

the true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.

Together we all looked like we had been plucked from the distant decade of 1980–89 and deposited into this dull, awkward future, a bunch of poorly dressed sinners throwing ourselves at the mercy of Christ, who was always sharp-looking and trim, graceful in pain, kindly in Heaven. I

My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.

Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.

He pressed the button, and waited. Several minutes later, a metal arm moved out from the bunk, and a plastic nipple descended toward his lips. He sucked on it eagerly, and a warm, sweet fluid coursed down his throat, bringing renewed strength with every drop.

Corpse-food was on the way out even in your time," Anderson explained. "Raising animals to—ugh—eat them became economically impossible. I don't know how many acres of land it took to feed one cow, but at least ten humans could survive on the plants it produced. And probably a hundred, with hydroponic techniques.

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.

By the late 50s, the Big Three of science fiction were Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein.

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo ..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

I do so dislike H. G. Wells being accompanied by Wagner, don't you Mr. Ford?" … he was forced to acknowledge the aptness of the phrase. Nazism combines a crassly mechanical futurism with the fuss and fume of a tawdry pseudo-Gothic misconception of the past.

Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

I asked how many guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95 percent of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5 percent expressed a strong preference for lying.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Pensa che in un razzo l'uomo può scoppiare come un pallone o restare pietrificato, o andare arrosto, e poi rimangono solo gli ossicini, a ballonzolare fra le pareti di latta, sulle orbite del progresso! Noi abbiamo seguito, con gioia, questa stupenda via... e siamo arrivati, e in queste celle, sopra questi piatti, tra immortali lavandini, con una schiera di armadi fedeli, di gabinetti affezionati, qua c'è la nostra realizzazione...

1939 New York World's Fair