Philip K. Dick Quotes

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.