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I Think A Lot Of People Are Frightened Of Technology And Frightened Of Change, And The Way To Deal With Something You're Frightened Of Is To Make Fun Of It. That's Why Science Fiction Fans Are Dismissed As Geeks And Nerds.

I Am, As I Have Always Been, Of The Opinion That While The Niceties Of Normal Moral Constraints Should Be Our Guides, They Must Not Be Our Masters.

The Bomb Lives Only As It Is Falling.

It Was A Truism That All Civilizations Were Basically Neurotic Until They Made Contact With Everybody Else And Found Their Place Within The Ever-changing Meta-civilisation Of Other Beings, Because, Until Then, During The Stage When They Honestly Believed They Might Be Entirely Alone In Existence, All Solo Societies Were Possessed Of Both An Inflated Sense Of Their Own Importance And A Kind Of Existential Terror At The Sheer Scale And Apparent Emptiness Of The Universe.

The Combination Of Modern Ordnance And Outdated Tactics Had, As Usual, Created Enormous Casualties On Both Sides.