“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
“Aldiss’s second law of thermo-linguistics states that what is most popular is rarely best and that what is best is rarely most popular.”
Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 201
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