The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.
What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
I wasn't an avid watcher of the original 'Star Trek.' But they'd pull out this thing to communicate without wires and you thought, 'Yeah, right.' Now... we're doing that with cellphones. So I think our minds are more open to the unimaginable.
As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.
