“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
As a science fiction author, Benford is perhaps best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night . This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.
In 1969 he wrote "The Scarred Man", the first story about a computer virus, published in 1970.
“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 319
“Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 318
“Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.”
Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 110
“When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.”
Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 107
“Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.”
Cosm (1998), Part 6, Chapter 3 (p. 325)
“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”
Part III, “Beyond Pluto”, Chapter 4, “The Solar Ramparts” (p. 206)
The Sunborn (2005)
The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 14, “This Immense Voyage” (p. 163)
The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 5, “A Day at the Beach” (p. 114)
“He’s an order of magnitude better than mere diplomats. He’s a conniver.”
The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 6, “Last Train Out of Dodge” (p. 71)
The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 38)
The Sunborn (2005), Part I, “Raw Mars”, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 37)