Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room--it's full of bugs.'
Which kind?'
Both.
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
John BrunnerTags: humour technology sociology
Putain mais quelle fichue imagination je peux avoir ...
John BrunnerTags: humour
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
John BrunnerThere are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John BrunnerI'm myself, not a label.
John BrunnerTags: individuality wit independence
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
John BrunnerTags: wisdom politics popularity
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
John BrunnerDon't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John BrunnerTags: excuses excuse explain 1988
Take stock, citizen bacillus,
Now that there are so many billions of you,
Bleeding through your opened veins,
Into your bathtub, or into the Pacific
Of that by which they may remember you.
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