
“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
To Hitler, August 3rd. Quoted in "The Battle of the Falaise Gap" - Page 51 - by Eddy Florentin - 1967
“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness.”
Quoted in "The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad" - Page 33 - by Harrison Evans Salisbury - 1972
“Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible…even if it sucks.”
BayCHI Podcast http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20060808a#2, The first 100k users are always the hardest, August 2006
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Bel companho, en chantan vos apel!
No dormatz plus, qu'eu auch chantar l'auzel
Que vai queren lo jorn per lo boschatge
Et ai paor que.l gilos vos assatge
Et ades sera l'alba.
"Reis glorios", line 11; translation from Gale Sigal Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages (1996) p. 148.
Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954.
The First and the Last (1954)