General Fiction Is Pretty Much

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.

A Couple Of Hundred Years From Now, Maybe [science Fiction Writers] Isaac Asimov And Fred Pohl Will Be Considered The Important Philosophers Of The Twentieth Century, And The Professional Philosophers Will Almost All Be Forgotten, Because They're Just Shallow And Wrong, And Their Ideas Aren't Very Powerful.

Listening To Music Engages The Previously Acquired Personal Knowledge Of The Listener.

No Computer Has Ever Been Designed That Is Ever Aware Of What It's Doing; But Most Of The Time, We Aren't Either.

Experience Has Shown That Science Frequently Develops Most Fruitfully Once We Learn To Examine The Things That Seem The Simplest, Instead Of Those That Seem The Most Mysterious.