Quotes by John Kilian Houston Brunner

SCANALYZER is the one single, the ONLY study of the news in depth thats processed by General Technics famed computer Shalmaneser, who sees all, hears all, knows all save only that which YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, wish to keep to yourselves.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



I havent changed my mind, if thats what youre getting at, he said at length. The stench and crackle of burning boats was vivid to him.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



What are you going to do for a career? Diverted from his orbit, Donald binked. Well, something which uses up a minimum of my time, I imagine. So I can use the rest to mortar up the gaps in my education.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



You dont have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
John Kilian Houston Brunner



I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer therell be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Weve always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
John Kilian Houston Brunner



I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Theyd have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian rgime, because Im not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people.
John Kilian Houston Brunner



Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
John Kilian Houston Brunner