Sergey Brin Quotes

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.