Brian Aldiss Quotes
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Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
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'You see life as a contrast between misery and pleasure, Jon; that is not a correct interpretation.''It’s a pretty good rule of thumb, I should have thought.''Thought and non-thought is the only valid line of comparison.''Bit of a bird’s-eye view, isn’t it? That puts us on the same level as the proles.''Exactly.'
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Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.
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Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'?He shut that one down sharply.Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.
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I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.
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All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.
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Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed.By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness.
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Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
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I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
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If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now.
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Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness - but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.
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You know why I am a prisoner-because the laws are so stupid that we prefer to break them than to live by them, although it means life-long imprisonment.
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Let’s have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!
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One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.
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What would be the effect of gradually drawing away from the iron laws under which, since its scampering pleistocene infancy, humankind had lived?
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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Digging deep in a Martian desert men discovered an enormous brain. It suddenly started to think at them - So they covered it up again...
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It i.e., his look held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.
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He gets bored with the effort of trying to think, and is unhappy because he knows thinking, or at least 'thinking-to-a-purpose' is on the black list of party activities.
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Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.
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She had tried to love him.
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You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.
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There have been mechanicals on the market with mini-computers for brains - plastic things without life, super-toys - but we have at last found a way to link computer circuitry with synthetic flesh.