I like audacious ideas.

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Cynic’ is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.

Immortality is an aim, not a fact.

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we’ve never seen before. This moves like the wind.

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name.

Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers.

But a lady forced is never a lady won.

The universe of artifacts was a human one.