Never Fire A Laser At A Mirror.

In Hindsight It May Even Seem Inevitable That A Socialist Society Will Starve When It Runs Out Of Capitalists.

Bruce Sterling Is One Terrific Writer And He's Relatively New, But I Don't Know How Long He's Been Doing It; He Probably Doesn't Need The Publicity Anymore!

I Love Superconductors.

For Each Human Being There Is An Optimum Ratio Between Change And Stasis. Too Little Change, He Grows Bored. Too Little Stability, He Panics And Loses His Ability To Adapt. One Who Marries Six Times In Ten Years Won't Change Jobs. One Who Moves Often To Serve His Company Will Maintain A Stable Marriage. A Woman Chained To One Home And Family May Redecorate Frantically Or Take A Lover Or Go To Many Costume Parties.

The Human Species Really Could Have Faced Global Thermonuclear War. During Seventy Years Of Cold War We Grew Used To It.