"Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us."

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Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.13, Macmillan

John Brunner

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“If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.”
“I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.”
“Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.”
“A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others”
“I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.”
“I have created a new universe from nothing.”

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