The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.
Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. - John Wyndham
Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
- John Wyndham
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. - John Wyndham
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. - John Wyndham
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. - John Wyndham
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
...after all, what is a planet but an island in space? - John Wyndham
...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital. - John Wyndham
The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? - John Wyndham
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. - John Wyndham
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. - John Wyndham
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
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