9 quotes
People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
The man had a bad temper, and if people kicked him around, he asked for it by starting the kicking himself.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
The social problems were far tougher than technological ones, because the human basics remained unaltered, and people don’t change as fast as things.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
People don’t change, they just grow older. But fads and gadgets and trivia alter fast, even to the point of becoming unrecognizable.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
And adults will recognize a mirage; a child will be deceived. But conversely, an intellectual mirage will deceive an adult, not a child.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
She was suffering the first pains of maturity’s burden, the knowledge of responsibility misused.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
The two girls looked at one another, caught in the terrible, helpless problem of immaturity, the knowledge that the mores of the adult world are too complicated to understand, and that children must walk warily.
Adults are always right. They are an alien race.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
Harding was elected because he promised normalcy. After war, men were tired. They wanted to crawl back into a 1912 womb. They didn’t want experiments that might upset their lives further.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
“Forbid them to sing it.” But the minister’s voice was dubious.
“Ja, but can they be forbidden to think it? They always think of what is verboten. They can’t help it. It’s a basic human instinct.”
Bypass to Otherness (1961)