To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.
An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.
What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens
The man that makes a character, makes foes.