"You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it."

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Source : "Frederik Pohl, grandmaster of science fiction, dies aged 93" by David Barnettt, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

Frederik Pohl

“Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.”
“America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.”
“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”

Source : Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.
“If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation”
“Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.”
“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”
“I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.”

Source : Source: autoweek.com
“One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.”

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