Writer Quotes

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs.

Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.