I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

Africa has no future.

V. S. Naipaul

An API is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's not that good.

@francesc

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas William Jerrold, A Land

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Ibn Gabirol

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.

Kim Fielding

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Helen Simonson

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Paulo Coelho