Quotes About Speculation

MARKETS SEEMED TO anticipate QE2 and take it in stride.

This is unusual but so are market conditions,

How do you draw the line between a healthy, exciting economic boom and a wanton, speculative stock-market bubble driven by the less savory aspects of human nature? As I pointed out drily to the House Banking Committee, the question was all the more complicated because the two can coexist.

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor,

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

Science fiction stories reflect major issues that concern humanity.

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You could say that the peaceable ones are just going to stay at home and play with their Nintendos, so if you do meet any of them, they might be hostile.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

the tradition discourages attachments to any particular ideas of enlightenment as well as to pointless philosophical or metaphysical speculation.

Most basic and dangerous of all was the Federalist creation of a huge perpetual federal debt, which, as New York governor George Clinton explained, not only would poison the morals of the people through speculation but would also "add an artificial support to the administration, and by a species of bribery enlist the monied men of the community on the side of the measures of the government. . . . Look to Great Britain.

Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Did you really shoot JFK? I didn't think chimpanzees lived that long. Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!

I've asked for Philip K. Dick.

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?

Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently.

Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

I get very worried that people that are buying bitcoins don't really understand what they're participating in other than the headline stories that it keeps going higher and 'I want to make sure I don't miss this opportunity to make some money.'

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.