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		I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ramez Naam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dane Cook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Historical science is being left in the dust. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Horner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Neil 
			 
			
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		We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Jung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. H. Auden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Schwartz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hailey Gates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Michael Straczynski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tan Le 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Michael Straczynski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		'Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.''Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,' I said sternly. 'Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nazanin Boniadi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Galifianakis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Emily Weiss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ramez Naam