Science fiction Quotes and Proverbs

• an “Ancient Chinese curse”: “May you live in interesting times”
• Sailing To Byzantium by Robert Silverberg:“He that is in the dance, must needs dance on, though he do but hop”.
• Asimov: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…”
• “Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying” — Iain Banks, 1954-2013