Quotes by : Gregory Benford

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away....

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was....

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to....

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.