Frederik Pohl

“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”

“What you have to do is write a good story.”

“Life is a disease, sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

“It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire universe is a joke.”

“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”

“To make a human being into a machine is to kill the human being.”

“The relationship between a writer and an editor is like a religious experience.”

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

“Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.”

“The science-fiction writers I knew were crazy about science, and the scientists I knew were crazy about science fiction.”

“The only way to write a publishable novel is to write a publishable novel.”

“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the worm of the present has chewed through some. Which moments are key?”

“If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.”

“A meeting is a place where minutes are taken and hours are lost.”