Sublime

Terror via technical surprise is the greatest threat to the survival of the human race.

“When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is—and the more life. I’m pro-life, George. Life itself is a huge gamble against the odds, against all odds! You can’t try to live safely, there’s no such

But the Machines work not for any single human being, but for all humanity,

Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.

‘In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness, and man is equipped to respond in stereotyped ways to frequently occurring situations and stimuli like hunger, danger, and sex. But in a developed and complex civilization individuals are more differentiated and unique than in a primitive society, and ma

Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.