Zitat des Tages von Philip K. Dick:
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
The Martians are always coming.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.