Douglas Adams on Saving the World

“We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.”

~ Douglas Adams

Source: WikiQuote

George Saunders on the Sameness of Life

“I don’t think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.”

~George Saunders (born December 2, 1958)

Source: Successories: iQuote

Lucy Maud Montgomery on the Indefatigability of Dreams

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), The Road to Yesterday

Source: GoodReads

C. S. Lewis on the Insatiable Desire

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

~ C. S. Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963)

Source: GoodReads

Some Fun Quotes from Science Fiction Writers

Reblogged with permission from: Some fun quotes from science fiction writers by  Fr. Ernesto Obregon

Clarke’s Three Laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Corollary to Clarke’s First Law – When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

— Isaac Asimov

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Corollary to Clarke’s Third Law – Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology.

— Larry Niven

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Corollary to Niven’s Law – There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is “idiot.”

— S. M. Stirling

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Clarke’s Second Law of Egodynamics – For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Finagle’s corollary to Murphy’s Law – Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.

— John W. Campbell, Jr.

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Hanlon’s Razor – Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Robert J. Hanlon

[Note, however, that this law is considered a later development of Ingham’s Maxim — Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory. —Sir Bernard Ingham]

Eleanor Roosevelt on Self Esteem

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

Source: GoodReads

Isaac Asimov on the Importance of Improvization

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”

~ Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Source: Fantasy & Science Fiction Quotations: Isaac Asimov Quotations

Anais Nin on How We See Things

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

~ Anais Nin

Source: BrainyQuote

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord on Leading Characters

“In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.”

~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

Source: Quotable Quotes

Douglas Adams on What Things Really Are

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.”

~ Douglas Adams

Source: WikiQuote