Study What You Love, And Youll Never

The Computer Has Evolved Into A Partner, A Tool, And An Environment--not Just In Science Fiction, But In The Public Consciousness As Well. Computers Are No Longer Malevolent Iron Brains That Manufacture Tyrannical And Oppressive Answers; They Are Not A Way To Think, They Are A Place From Which To Think. The Computer Is An Environment In Which Answers Can Be Sought, Created, Manipulated And Developed.

Morality—like Velocity—is Relative. The Determination Of It Depends On What The Objects Around You Are Doing. All One Can Do Is Measure One's Position In Relation To Them; Never Can One Measure One's Velocity Or Morality In Terms Of Absolutes.

What I Wish Is That People Would Look Beyond The Tribbles And See I've Written Some Other Books That I Really Would Like People To Notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, There's The Martian Child, Which Is About My Son And The Adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, Which Is My Magnum Opus, My Great Epic Story.

Death Comes Black And Hard, Rushing Down On Me From The Future, With No Possible Chance Of Escape.

I Had Always Been Fascinated By The Whole Idea That Australia Was This Different Ecology And That When Rabbits And Prickly Pears And Other Things From Europe Were Introduced Into Australia, They Ran Amok.