Listen, the Future, Fruitful Errors

Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
~ Advice

The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
~ Issac Asimov

Looking where? For what?

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
~ J.F. Kennedy

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
~ Groucho Marx

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~ Isaac Asimov

Generations, character and science

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~ Isaac Asimov

Art and Science

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
~ Isaac Asimov

Successful technologies

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

~ Isaac Asimov

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

~ Francis Bacon

Attitude towards Others

I'm sure w all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that!

~ Tom Lehrer

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

~ Isaac Asimov

Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe.

~ Thomas Hobbes