David Gerrold Quotes
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
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Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.
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love is a sharing of a mutual delusion.
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shadows of night and reflections of lightshiver and quiver and churn,for the searching of soul that never can hurtis the fire that never can burn.
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In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.
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'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.
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Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
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There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.
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In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
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Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
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I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
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I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
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'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.
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Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.
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I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
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Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
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Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them.
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Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.
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Not that he was jealous of the machine-but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master.Love.
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Ah well-the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew.
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harlie, a little psychology is a dangerous thing. i know enough to know what you’re trying to do. it won’t work. the awareness of a psychological pressure is sometimes enough to nullify it. the mere awareness.
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'You could call it that,' Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.
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You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
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There isn’t a tool built that can’t be used as a weapon.