Conference noted::sf

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"   .....Oops! Wrong NOTESfile!

"He's dead, Jim!"

"'e ain't ded yet!!"  another oops??

 Joe
 -=-

"Your ability to conceptualize falls short of the ability of the
universe to proliferate complexity."
	from The Great Time Machine Hoax

TANSTAFL

"It slimed me."

"Think of it as evolution in action."

"A committee is a creature with six or more legs and no brains."
					Woodrow Wilson Smith
					Time Enough for Love by R.A. Heinlein

" Play the man, Ridley, and we shall light such a flame in England
 that shall never be put out! "
 -Bishop Hugh Latimer (C. of E.) to Bishop John Ridley
  as they are being burnt at the stake under Mary Stuart's purge
as quoted by the old lady who lights herself on fire with her books
in Ray Bradbury's FARENHEIT 451 (book & film).

"Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal"

"Snakes! Why does it always have to be snakes?!"

"Feel The Force"

"May The Force be with you"

-- Bill

"My mind is going, Dave, I can feel it."

"In terms of long-range planning, I never expected to get out of this
universe alive" - from "Dimension of Miracles" by Robert Sheckley

/jlr

(Paraphrasing)

	"Your challenge was overly complicated. It is normally sufficient
	 just to scream and leap".

		Speaker-to-Animals to Louis Wu
		Ringworld, by Larry Niven

Yub...Yub...Tchi-bookie-ookie

		RotJ, Ewoks (gee)

"Whole tone, up a 2nd, down a third, down an octave, up a perfect 5th"

            Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

DEC [down an octave] CG,

 Joe
 -=-

	Re: the Close Encounters quote. An aside.
	Francois Truffault (the French Nouvelle Vague - New Wave c. 1960)
film director plays the French scientist in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS; but a former
friend of mine from Boston/Cambridge ca. 1963, Lance Hendricksen, plays 
one of his assistants on that butte-top; he only gets 1 line, however.
	Still, the quote is 'forever memorable'. Thanx CG.
	-Bill Costley
PS I leave DEC for the 2nd time, this Fri. the 17th, for a startup s/w co.
Softbridge Microsystems Corp. 186 Alewife Brook Parkway (Fresh Pond)
(617) 576-2257; I'll miss having access to these notes files there.
(617) 524-2226 is my homephone @ 249 Lamartine St.3, J.P. MA 02130-2264

		"...they were featureless and telic, like lambent gangrene"

	"Farewell, friend, I was a thousand times more evil than thou..."

	Fascinating...		;-|



						mike

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one"  or
 as it was paraphrased later on...
"The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many"

"I bow your logic"

'Being a Captain was your first, best destiny'

 Joe
 -=-        "Hey!  All of these roof timbers are made of wood!!!"

Ah yes, Herbert. Here's one of favorites (though any line the man's
written is a masterpiece in itself), from "The Jesus Incident".

"Is the lesson diminished because the history that moves you is fiction?"

I often throw this one at people who have the audacity to insult SF.
(there is only SF and Science Fiction, Sci Fi is a definate no no.)
There's a philosophy in SF, or that which I enjoy best anyway, that 
this quote realizes for me. I don't know, it applies best to SF, because
SF has something no other type of fiction does (YOUV'E read Heinlein,
Ellison, Herbert, Clarke, YOU know what I mean.)

                                               Jen

.5 misquoted it.  It's "TANSTAAFL."

---------

"You are know leaving the airlock.  Thank you for following the rules."

I may have the exact wording incorrect, but you get the idea.  The ship's
computer says this to the person being sucked out into [OUT INTO?] space
in "Dark Star".

Dave C.

Also,

[approximate wording]  "Nevertheless, I will detonate on schedule."

Bomb XX (maybe in was XIX) speaking in "Dark Star".

Dave C.

Also from Dark Star
	"Time to go sleepybye, you worthless piece of garbage"

			"Hellfire and damnation!!!"

				from guess whose book

					sam

	"Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder."

	"The doorknob opened a blue eye and looked at him."

	"If two energies are attuned to a twenty-decimal level of
	 similarity, the greater will bridge the gap to the latter
	 as if no gap existed, though at finite speeds."

	"This much I have learned: here is the race that will rule 
	 the Sevagram."

	"Sibyl Ward is making faces among the local Zengs.  They are
	 asking for her sister."

	"`Walt's faults.'  Sounds like a formal dance."

	"`And you have worms,' said Gallagher [to the robot], referring
	 of course to certain mechanisms within his body."

	"`How do you do?'  `We have our methods,' the Hoka said, with
	  a fiendish chuckle."

	That ought to do for a start...

Steve

	how about:

		"mirmee...mirmee" (?)

	(I'd type a few more, but I'm running late.)
						
							Ed

	"`You're dead!'
	"`I'm not even alive,' said the robot."

	[paraphrased]:
	"`I am the god of sea and fishes,' said Neptune to the fishmonger.
	"`This fish has no god,' said the seller.
	"Neptune stared in amazement.  `Do you mean to tell me this is a
	"godless fish?'"

Steve Kallis, Jr.

    "Head 'em off at the past!"	
    
    "Oh wow!  It's like the end of the world all over again!"
    
    					Firesign Theatre
    
    
    "Lovely place!"  "Oh, you've been there?"  "Yes, but not yet."
    
    "Date of birth?"  "Hard to tell.  Sometime soon, I expect."
    
    					Dr. Who

          But there are fings in the water... that crawl...
          

    "The Gostak are the Doshes"
     - title of an old short story in an old anthology perhaps edited
    by Groff Conklin
    
    "The creature crept..."
     - first line in an old short story by A E VanVogt (Black Destroyer?)
    
    Mike Baker

re: 113.31

   > "The Gostak are the Doshes"

It was closer to "The Gostak distims the Doshes"

What are Doshes?  Those that are distimmed by the Gostak.
What is distim?  That which the Gostak does to Doshes.
What is the Gostak? ...

A great short...Thanks for reminding me about it.

Ray_who'll_try_to_find_it_in_his_library_tonight

    It's "The Gostak distimmed the Doshes". The story is "The Gostak
    and the Doshes" by Miles Breuer. Groff Conklin obviously loved
    the story, since he included it in three of his anthologies.
    
    --- jerry

    	UP, UP, AND
    AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

       "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubley so."
    
                      or
    
       "It's not so much the Afterlife, more a sort of Apres Vie"
    
                      but finally
    
       "Beam up three Mister Scott"
       "Phasers on stun"
       "Fire photon torpedos"

    "Shall I kill him now, Doctor?"

    
    
    	"You're terminated, f*cker!"
    		Sarah Conner
    
    	"Red light, stop; green light, go; yellow light, speed up."
    		Starman
    
    	"You humans are at your best when things are at their worst."
    		Again, Starman
    

    re:.37
    
    I thought it was "Red light, stop; green light go; yellow light,
    go very fast."
    
    --- jerry

RE: .38

	You're correct Jerry..

					mike

    "They were in the wrong place and the wrong time
     ...Naturally they became heros."
    
                                - Leia Organa of Alderaan -

	"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything
	 you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."

			- Trillian (Tricia McMillan),
			  The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

        OK, one of my favorites: it's the intro page to a very strange
        novel, and I've always liked the "feel" of it.  I made a
        LaTeX "poster" of it for my office...  By the way, the author
        of .41 should have waited one more reply to enter a quote
        from Hitchhiker... (!!)
        
        
        
        			   NOTICE

                 The rules of normalcy will be temporarily
                 suspended while new rules are drawn.  The new
                 rules may not be the same as the old rules.  No
                 hints can be given concerning the new rules. 

                 The best thing to do might be to avoid conflict
                 situations, spend the rest of the day in bed,
                 cool out. 

                 Or, if that sounds boring, I could take you for
                 a ride... 

        		-Robert Sheckley, Options

    Heinlein endowed the Time Patrol with several mottos stuck up on
    the barracks walls:
    
    "A paradox may be paradoctored."
    
    "Never put off till yesterday what you should have done tomorrow."
    
    
    The Doctor once signed a letter to Leonardo daVinci:
    	"See you earlier.
    	(signed) The Doctor"
    
    While peacefully fishing by a stream, he observed, "Ah, this takes
    me back ... or forward..."
    
    Such remarks inspired me, while playing a time-traveler in an SF
    role-playing game, to ask suspciously, "Are we going to have been
    here already?"
    
    Earl Wajenberg

    "Sherman, set the wayback machine for ..."
    
                                                   
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    "The early bird gets the worm only goes to show that the worm should
    have stayed in bed."
    
    	-Heinlen

    [...]  <--- condensed version of the notes of Lazarus Long.
    
    Speaking of R.A.H., from TUNNEL IN THE SKY:
    
    "Watch out for the stobor."
     
    						Don
              
    
    P.S.  I may have latent ESP after all!  I thought of R.A.H. *1*
    reply before he was mentioned!!  ;-)   

    I seem to recall an excellent prayer in Zelazny's _Creatures of Light
    and Darkness_.  I don't have a copy of the book though.
    
    It was a non-denominational blessing.  Could someone who has this
    book post it.  I believe it is somewhere in pages 35-39 (paperback).
    
    Sorry, not much to go on.
    
    Steve McAfee
            

From the end of "Dimension of Miracles" (from memory):

"Well, in terms of long range planning, I never expected to get out 
of this universe alive." said Carmody.  "I have my moment, which is 
all I have I ever had."

"Saint Carmody!" sneered the Prize.  "Your death pursues you 
inexorably!  What will you do with your precious moment?"

"I shall go on living it.  That is all that moments are for."

- Robert Sheckley

	(re: .42)

	Well, I'll rectify that. Here's another one:

	 "And we  will be restoring normality as soon as we are sure what is
	  normal anyway."
				- Trillian


	  (said before the one in .41)

        .47:  Ha!  I've got that one in my office, too..
        
        "Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may
        not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven
        for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires
        forgiveness.  Conversely, if not forgiveness but something
        else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which
        you may be elegible hafter the destruction of your body,
        I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld,
        as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving
        said benefit.  I ask this in my capacity as your elected
        intermediary between yourself and that which may not be
        yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of
        your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive
        of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by
        this ceremony.  Amen."
        
        	- "The Possibly Proper Death Litany"
        		Madrak (the Preacher)
        		Creatures Of Light And Darkness
        		 (by Roger Zelazny)
        
        Also, as he believes himself to be in danger (later in the
        book):
        
        "Then into the hands of Whatever May Be that is greater than
        life or death, I resign myself---if this act will be of any
        assistance in preserving my life.  If it will not, I do not.
        If my saying this thing at all be presumptuous, and therefore
        not well received by Whatever may or may not care to listen,
        then I withdraw the statement and ask forgiveness, if this
        thing be desired.  If not, I do not.  On the other hand..."
        
        		(unfortunately, he's interrupted at this
        		point, so we don't get to hear the rest).
        
        And then there's...
        
        "Hallowed by thy name, if a name thou hast and any desire
        to see it hallowed..."
        
        Roger has a very definite style.

        As long as I'm into Zelazny quotes, I've always particularly
        liked the opening lines from Lord Of Light (both my VAXstation
        and my car's license plate share one of the main character's
        many names)...
        
        "His followers called him Mahasamatman, and said he was a God.
        But he preferred to drop the Maha- and -atman, and called
        himself Sam.  He never claimed to be a God.  But then, he never
        claimed not to be..." 
        
        	/dave

    re. 47:
    >    "Hallowed by thy name, if a name thou hast and any desire
    >    to see it hallowed..."
     
    I once saw this completed in the proper style. It was on (in) one
    of the computers at MIT. Has anybody else seen this?
                                                   
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    "What thee are about to see comes down to us from the time of the
    beginning without change."
    
    			T'pau of Vulcan
    
    -and-
    
    
    "I have a bad feeling about this."
    

	Here's a classic. I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet:

	"My God, it's full of stars!"

		- Dave Bowman in '2001'

	and another Hitch-Hiker one:

	"Here's what to do if you want to catch a lift from a Vogon:
	 Forget it!"

    If you include fantasy in SF, I'd like to add:
    
    "You were a minute too late."  from _Conjure Wife_
    
    "Nobody knows what it means.  He says it every hour." from _The
    Incomplete Enchanter.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    
    
    	No matter where you go, there you are.
    
    		Buckaroo Banzai

                            
    re .50
    
      That's the Zelazny quote.  Thanks.
    
    
    How about one of the many poetic quotes from Lewis Carroll:
    
      "The time has come," the Walrus said,
      "To talk of many things.
       Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
       Of cabbages and kings,
       Of why the sea is boiling hot,
       And whether pigs have wings."
    
          - Through the Looking Glass
    
    
     Steve McAfee

    "Are you sure this planet is *supposed* to be here?" 
    
    					- The Doctor
    
                                                   
                  /
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    It's not my fault!!
    
    Lando Calrissian and Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back

    Ah, Zelazny.  He *can* turn a phrase.  My favorite is:
    
    "Then come with me to Bright Defile, where Judgement Day is not
    a thing to be put aside."
    			"For a Breath I Tarry"
    
                          
    Then there's "...And call me Conrad." from "...And Call Me Conrad."
    (aka THIS IMMORTAL)
        
    
    						Don

    "Please don't cut my arm. I'm quite attached to it.
     It's very handy!"
    
    					- Dr Who
    					(Peter Davison in one of the
    					 Cybermen episodes if I remeber
    					 correctly)

    	No matter where you go, there you are.
    
	"PigKiller" in Mad Max 3.

    re .62:
    
    Why don't we start a note of all the places we've seen the quote
    
    	"No matter where you go, there you are"
    
                                                   
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    Many years ago, the comedian George Gobel would reach a point where
    conversation would crawl to a standstill, and then drawl, "Well...
    _there_ you are!"
    
    Do you suppose it could have been the seed crystal?
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    
    "No matter where you go, there you are," was apparently stated by
    someone named Oliver.  I have heard it referred to as Oliver's Law
    of Location.
    
    Dave W.

re .65:
>    "No matter where you go, there you are," was apparently stated by
>    someone named Oliver.  I have heard it referred to as Oliver's Law
>    of Location.

Oliver's law was published in _Murphy's_Law_Book_Two_, by Arthur Bloch,
in 1980. I have also heard a similar quote at the end of WBCN's (Boston rock)
heavy metal segment (Sunday, 10pm) for all of the 6 years I've been listening
to that station. So who heard it first?

On a related subject, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
kevin

    re -1 easy....
    Since birds evolved from reptiles which had eggs (which in turn
    evolved from amphibians which had eggs which evolved from fish
    which...) and since chickens were bred from jungle fowl which also
    laid eggs.....obviously the egg. 

	"Live long and prosper"  Spock in the Star Trek TV series.

		The phrase was used by my best man at my wedding. I have. /jon

From the end of "Stand on Zanzibar" by John Brunner:

  Bathed in his currents of liquid helium, self-contained, immobile, 
vastly well informed by every mechanical sense: Shalmaneser.
  Every now and again there passes through his circuits a pulse 
which carries the cybernetic equivalent of the phrase, 
"Christ, what an imagination I've got."

... and the human race by tens of thousands would be knee-deep in the 
water around Zanzibar.

    	This is from HITCHIKER'S, when Slartibartfast (the guy who designed
    Norway's coastline for the Eath Mark I computer) told Arthur Dent
    that mice are really super-advanced hyperdimensional beings:
    
    	"The cheese and the sqeeking were just a front."
    
    	This is from an episode of DOCTOR WHO (with Tom Baker), when
    he just arrived on a planet and had stepped out of his TARDIS, and
    was greeted by some weapon-wielding natives:
    
    	"Why isn't anyone ever glad to see us?"
    
    	Larry
    

    At the bookstore, browsing, I saw *Blood River Down* by Lionel Fenn.
    I was thinking about getting it after reading the blurb on the back.
    Then I turned to the front page (with the little extract) and found
    (among other things):
    
    Glorian moved again, out of his grip and into the meadow.  She was
    *in* the pantry, and was impatiently waiting for him.  He thought
    to himself, How bad is it here that I have to lose my mind to keep
    my sanity?
    
    "Hey," he said as he took a deep breath and stepped through the
    well, "what am I looking for anyway?"
    
    Glorian paused.  "Oh that.  What you're looking for is a duck."
    
    "A duck?  Forget it,"  Gideon bellowed ....

    "I've got sticky tape on all the mirrors in my house so that I don't
   accidentally walk through into another dimension..."  
   
                                             - Steven Wright.

You are trapped in that bright moment where you learnt your doom



Peb

    re:.71
    
    By the way, "Lionel Fenn" is actually horror author and anthol-
    ogist (and former science fiction author) Charles L. Grant.
    
    Just thought you might like to know.
    
    --- jerry

    	"The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and
    stupidity."
         
    						- Harlan Ellison
    

    What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?  
    Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? 

                 		- Woody Allen, WITHOUT FEATHERS

    First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
    
    				- The Doctor

    The quarry goes to the small valley, but hunters cross the hill.
    
    			C. J. Cherryh, CHANUR'S HOMECOMING

    So sure are you! Tried have you? Always with you it cannot be done.
    Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. There is
    no try.
    
                                                -- Yoda

    There's the theory that humans are what happens to evil dolphins
when they die; this is dolphin Hell. 
 
                                     -From a guy named MacLeod on USENET 

    	"The shape I'm in, you could donate my body to science fiction!"
    
    					- Rodney Dangerfield
    
    					  BACK TO SCHOOL (1986)
    

    Against Stupidity, the Gods Themselves struggle in vain...
    
    							      ...Asimov
    

    "Never blow up Earth in Chapter 1; you're going to need it later."

				             - Douglas Adams
                

"Killing me won't help you. Come to think of it, won't help me much either."

"Oh no... I save planets."

 "Absolutely brilliant, almost up to my standards."

 "You may be A doctor, but I am THE doctor, the definate article you might say"

 "Sorry, must dash."

    "He is NOT an animated pile of machinery....He's a robot"
                                               -Will Robinson

    
    
    	"I transported the whole lot into their engine room, where 
    	 they'll be no tribble at all..."
    					   Chief Engineer Scott
    

    
    "Here I am, brain the size of a planet ...."
    
    
    "No, I come from Iowa - I just work in outer space."
    
    

"Often, I must speak otherwise than I think.  That is called diplomacy."

-Stilgar,
 from Frank Herbert's DUNE Messiah

"Many that live deserve death.  And some that die deserve life.  Can you
give it to them?  Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
For even the wise cannot see all ends."

-Gandalf,
 from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

    "Operating systems room, prepare for shutdown."

    "I never thought I'd be *happy* to see our ratings go *down*!"

        		-- lots of these were sprinkled throughout the 
        		   last broadcast episode of MAX HEADROOM

    "God is an iron"
    		-- from a story of the same name
    		   Spider Robinson

    Can't believe that we have people that think Heinlein is quotable
    and no votes for Joanna Russ, best polemicist in the English-scribbling
    world...  _The Female Man_ is a virtual Bartlett's of acidity.
    
    	"But why do you want to fight when you do not know how?"

    Maybe not many read THE FEMALE MAN....
    
    							Don

    "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"  -- best quite late on a Friday
    after a hectic week, with arm-waving and stiff-legged walk. 


    re .93 -- actually, I find Heinlein quite quotable, in an everyday
    sense.  My husband and I frequently use "sho, sho" at each other,
    because it sounds silly and we "know" it is one of many phrases
    used by Heinlein characters but not real people.  In horror, we
    heard someone in a shopping mall use it the other day, in a tone
    of voice and a drawl that made it sound natural... 


    -- Linda Huxtable

    
    "This must be some strange usage of the word "safe" that I hadn't
    previously been aware of"
    
    Arthur Dent
    
    
    "Life ? Don't talk to me about life ."
    
    Marvin
    
    
    "With a degree in maths and one in astrophysics , it was either this ,
    or back to the dole queue Monday morning !"  (Loosely)
                                       
    Trillion
    
    
    "I wish *I* had two heads . I could have hours of fun just bashing
    them together"
    
    Ford Prefect
    
    
    "Come ! Or you will be late !"
    
    "Late ? What for ?"
    
    "What is your name Earthman ?"
    
    "Dent . Arthur Dent ."
    
    "You will be late , as in the late Dentarthurdent . It's a sort
    of threat you see . Never been particularly good at them myself
    , but I've heard they can be effective ."
    
    
    A.D and Slartibartfast
    
    
    
    "Pass me the rap-rod , plate-captain !"
    
    and
    
    "Ok , let's meet the meat "
    
    
    guess ..........
    
    
    
    
    
    John J
    

    
    "Dave, You're Fired!" (is that the right name??)
    "Thank you."
    
    also
    
    "I like it!"
    
    both are from Robocop                           
    
    "Next he'll tell is it can do the Alpha Centauri run in 5 parsecs."
    
    - from the FANTASY series "Defenders of the Flame."  I forget who
    thought/said it.
    
    Clark.
    
    

"Houston, we've got a problem."

From the Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon when an on-board explosion 
disabled their space craft.  How's that for understatement?

Dave

    The notation:
    
    	;Danger, Warning!
    
    	and
    
    	;Danger, Will Robinson!
    
    Show up occasionally in my CP/M BIOS listings, cautioning the user
    not to request certain operations unless one is certain of the
    consequences....
    
    Willie
    

    "It's often said that life is strange, oh yes, but compared to what?"

                                		- Steve Forbert

   Kirk:  "You can't run a society based on...comedy routines!"
   Flyter:  "You can't?  I thought it was rather a common thing.  Not
             under that name, of course."

                                                  - John Ford,
                                         HOW MUCH FOR JUST THE PLANET? (1987)
                        

      "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense." 

                                                - Anonymous

      "The surface of the strange, forbidden planet was roughly textured
   and green, much like cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid
   says it is all right to buy it." 

                                                - Scott Jones

    			-< intelligent computers ? >-
    
    "There is a gateway to the imagination through which you must pass
    before you are concious. You can carry ideas from one time-place
    to another time-place, but you must carry your ideas as symbols.
    Do you know, though, what it is you carry...
    ... and who it is that carries?"
    
    Raja Flattery from Destination: Void by Frank Herbert
    
    Herbert is probably one of the finest sources of quotes.
    
    "I have seen the now" Paul Atreides
    
    "Aren't the girls pretty this year" Leto Atreides II
    
    Re: an earlier note
    
    "Against boredom even the Gods struggle in vain" is by Nietche (sp?)
    not Asimov
    
    Balders
    

    re .103:
    
    > "Against boredom even the Gods struggle in vain" is by Nietche (sp?)
    > not Asimov
      
    I thought it was:                   
    
    "Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain" 
    				- Nietzche
                                          
    Thus the title of Asimov's book _The_Gods_Themselves_, which was
    divided into three sections titled "Against Stupidity","The Gods
    Themselves", and "Struggle in Vain".
                                                   
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    You're right. It is 'Stupidity', not 'Boredom' that Nietzche referred
    to.
    
    	Balders
    

        "Humans thought they were superior to dolphins because they had
    created weapons and wars, and digital watches.  Dolphins thought they
    were superior for the same reasons." 

                                                 - Douglas Adams

      "For now we have missed our best chance.  The satellite is gone...
  Even the shuttle rocket is gone.  We are back where we were in 1950..." 
  
      "Therefore - I propose that we build a spaceship and send it to
  the Moon!" 
 
                      - Robert Heinlein, THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON (1949)
 

    	"In the end, science fiction always has the last laugh."
    
    					- PROBE (ABC-TV), 1988
    

    Larry, Asimov doesn't "co-write" PROBE. He co-created the
    series, which is a different thing altogether.
    
    --- jerry

    
    I'd buy that for a dollar!!!!!
    
    Dave from RoboCop
    

    "Humans and Kzinti, we make poor slaves."

       "A [good] SF story is the story of a human problem, with a human
    solution, which would not have happened without its technological or
    scientific content." 
 

    "Remember when Science Fiction was just fun stuff that you didn't let
  your friends know you liked?" - Ric Bretschneider
 

    The best way to get a drink out of a Vogan is, stick your finger
    down his throat.

    I can't really say this is a quotable phrase,since I can't see how
    it would be worked into a conversation. But ...
    
    from Phillip K. Dick's Ubik.
    
    Potbellied, squat and thic legged, Stanton Mick perambulated toward
    them. He wore fuchsia pedal-pushers, pink yakfur slippers, a snakeskin
    sleeveless blouse, and a ribbon in his waist length dyed whit hair.
    His nose Joe thought; it looks like the rubber bulb of a New Delhi
    taxi, soft and squeezable. And loud. The loudest nose , he thought
    that I have ever seen.
    

  "By the disgusting diseased left testicle of Makki Grodno... !"

Anyone care to guess where it's from?
By the way, the personal name (if the whole thing comes out) is not an SF quote.

  "Aieeee a Balrog is come" 
	- Legolas.

  "The best way to annoy a Vogon is to feed its grandmother to the Ravenous
   Bugblatter Beast of Traal"  
	- The Guide  (this may not be exact)

- jj

I guess I'll have to find a new personal name for Notes.

- jj

<	  "Aieeee a Balrog is come" 
<		- Legolas.

Are you sure? I thought that it was Gimli who said those immortal words. :^}

Dave

> Are you sure? I thought that it was Gimli who said those immortal words. :^}

I was pretty sure but I even double chacked.  

  "'Ai! ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog! A Balrog is come!'
   Gimli stared with wide eyes.  'Durin's Bane!' he cried, and letting his axe 
fall he covered his face."

The first time I read it (in an older edition) I am positive it was "Aieee!" and
not "Ai!, ai!" (which is not nearly as good)

- JJ

Re. < Note 113.119 by SARAH::J_JOSEPH "Sitting on a park bench..." >
                                   -< Aieee >-

<	  "'Ai! ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog! A Balrog is come!'

I stand corrected. 

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	"Dawn is ever the hope of men."
					Aragorn, at the battle of Helm's Deep.

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Dave Busch

    Calvin:  "Do you think he's [the Martian] scared of us?"
    Hobbes:  "Why not?  We're scared of him."
    Calvin:  "Yeah, but we're just ordinary Earthlings, not weirdos from
              another planet, like he is." 

                     - CALVIN AND HOBBES, September 27, 1988

    Calvin:  "Why do you think the Martian hid from us?"
    Hobbes:  "Maybe Martians don't like Earthlings."
    Calvin:  "Don't like us?!  What's not to like??  There's nothing 
              wrong with humans!"
             "Hey, you Martian!  Come on out!  We're not bad!  We just 
              came here because people polluted our own planet so much 
              that...uh...what I mean, is...um..." 
             "So what are you saying?  That our reputation preceded us?"   
    Hobbes:  "Would you welcome in a dog that wasn't house-trained?"

                     - CALVIN AND HOBBES, September 28, 1988
                   

    
    re .110
    
    Actually, that comes from:
    	"Would you buy it for a quarter?"
    
    from "The Marching Morons" by Kornbluth (I think)
    
    I wasn't sure whether to be upset or pleased when I heard it in
    RoboCop.
    
    		Merryl

    "Once we were Bloomenkinder in the Perfumed Garden, but now
     we are sapient spirits of the Arkie Spark."
                        -Moussa, a.k.a. Sunshine Shasta Leonardo
                         in Spinrad's _Child of Fortune_

     On the way down he saw the Firebird.
                        -John Jakes, _On Wheels_

    "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and
     we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
                        -Westley, The Man in Black
                         in William Goldman's _The Princess Bride_

    Those will have to do for now.

    DougO

    From two Talbot Mundy books that I just re-read...
    
    THE NINE UNKNOWN:
    
    	"'Item one, a fool is very foolish.'" (Chullander Ghose)
    
    	"There is nothing in the world more sure than that
    	 the priests and politicians *always* abandon their
    	 clients when convenient; nor anything more fixed
    	 than the assurance of the due-to-be-abandoned until
    	 the miserable fact confronts them."
    
    THE DEVIL'S GUARD:
    
    	"'This babu is incorruptible by anything but bribes.'"
    		(Chullander Ghose)
    
    	"'Damn foolishness is all right if persisted in. It is
    	 being half-clever and half-foolish that gets people
    	 into trouble.'"  (Chullander Ghose)
    
    --- jerry

    I came across a humorous line while reading Anne McCaffrey's
    _Dragonsdawn_ this weekend.  It was the result of a discussion among a
    few of the characters about the inefficiency and illogic of the human
    anatomy.  In regards to the human reproductive system (paraphrasing): 
    
    Why put the playground between the sewers?

RE: .-1    

	Not relevant to topic I know but 

	_Dragonsdawn_ ?????

	Is this a new one, when is it coming to the UK.


From Micro Phobia - Martin Honeysett

      - The development of the micro chip has been likened to the invention
	of the printing press, such is its importance to modern society.
	Video and computers are bound to have a great impact on our 
	lives...

      - I fed all your symptoms into the computer Mr Bilkins, and it died.

      - I'm not playing with myself, I'm working my pocket calculator.

      - It's exhausted, I've been playing squash on it all afternoon.

      - And I bought this one to explain the manual of the first one.

      - Haven't you got one with less scruples ? It refuses to compute
	cash-in-hand estimates.

      - Of course it'll take us a while to learn how to use it properly.

	Not SF but fact. Can't remember where I clipped it from but I've still
        got it in my drawer.
    
        "What the hell is it good for?"
    
    	- Robert Lloyd, engineer for the advanced computing systems division
    of IBM reacting to colleagues who insisted that the microprocessor
    was the wave of the future.

    "It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that
  you can solve their problems." - L. Wittgenstein 

    "Gods are like that.  It's not enough that they can control everything.  
  They want to be famous, too." - Orson Scott Card, SF author

    "Life, even cellular life, may exist out yonder in the dark.  But
  high or low in nature, it will not wear the shape of man.  That shape
  is the evolutionary product of a strange, long wandering through the
  attics of the forest roof, and so great are the chances of failure,
  that nothing precisely and identically human is likely ever to come
  that way again." - Loren Eiseley, THE IMMENSE JOURNEY, 1957

    "What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent 
  Vastness of the Universe!  So many Suns, so many Earths!" 

      - Christianus Huygens, "New Conjectures Concerning the Planetary 
        Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions", c. 1670

    "I reject that [the Sherlock Holmes principle] entirely.  The impossible 
  often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks." 

    - Dirk Gently in Douglas Adams' DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY

    "The future is rude and pushy.  It won't wait for us to solve today's 
  problems before it butts in with tomorrow's." - Anonymous

    "As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be
  more like machines." - Joseph Wood Krutch

    
    	God does not throw dice with the universe.
    
                                                 A. EINSTEIN
    
    	Then who's responsible for this crapshoot?
    
                                                 A. NONYMOUS

    Re: .-1
    
>    	God does not throw dice with the universe.
>    
>                                                 A. EINSTEIN
    
	"Not only does god play dice with the universe, but sometimes he
    	throws them where they can't be seen."
    					- Steven Hawking
    
    				- hbm

    	The correct Einstein quote is:  "God does not *play* dice with 
    the Universe."  He said it in regards to the unpredictibility and
    seeming randomness of quantum mechanics.
    
    	Larry
    

  And I think it was either Enrico Fermi or Leo Szilard who retorted,
  "Albert, stop telling God what to do."

  JP

    
    
    Retorts never seen to require as much energy or thought as the
    idea they cut down.
                                                              
    

    
    
    "If I had known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself"
    
    i ferget the character.....
    _A Scanner Darkly_ by P.K. Dick
     

    "It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have
    to push this button."
    
    Can anyone identify this? It's driving me crazy!
    
    
    Ian S.

    Sounds like a Dr. Who statement.
    
    Steve

I think its either  Thomas Dish (sp?) Or Philp K Dick   (in that order)

	If we get to guess.....

I think it sounds like something Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett would
write.

Snort   *;'D

  Mike J

    RE: .135
    
    Wrong, folks! It's the name of a chapter in John Brunner's "Stand on
    Zanzibar"!
    
    Just finished rereading "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" for
    the umpteenth time. Incredible reads!
    
    - Richard

    It's a chapter heading from John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar".  He put
    it in quotes, if I remember correctly, so it may have an earlier
    source.
    
    -dave

    Thanks, "Stand on Zanzibar" has got to be it!  Thanks to all who
    offered guesses; I'd figured it could have come from any one of
    those, which explains my confusion! 
    
    Ian S.
    

    That'll teach me to answer the phone while entering a reply.
    
    -dave

    Probably stole it from 
    George Jetson

    
    
    "...so what are you doing standing on a cloud ?"
    
    					Terry Pratchett
    					(Strange man!)
    
    Ian
    

(Larry Niven , was asked at a convention "What is the best
advice you have ever been given?")

On my 21st birthday my father said 
"Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it"


The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

(but I got it from "Ghastly Beyond Belief")

(The topic about the scf-fi channel hosted by Isaac Asimov prompted
me to find & enter this)

Letter from Isaac Asimov to the authors of the 'reference' book
Ghastly Beyond Belief


Dear Mr Gaiman,

	You may use the three Laws of Robotics and other
phrases of mine that strike your fancy in your book of
SF quotations (and in return, please have the publishers send
me a copy when it is done)

	Unfortunately, I honestly do not have the time to root
among my voluminous output for deathless phrases, nor do I
imagine I can judge good from bad.


					Isaac Asimov

    I like his honesty. Especially the last part.
    
    

    I just finished Jerry Pournelle's Prince Of Mercenaries, and one
    paragraph had me rolling on the floor.  On entering an office, we
    are shown a magnificent desk.  It's described by the owner as being
    made from local materials, though the electronics came from Viasyn
    on Terra.
    
    "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry......"
    
    Willie_who_has_a_mostly_Compupro_S-100_machine_at_home

    re.148, 
    
    Sorry, I didn't get it, please elaborate.
    
    Tony

    Viasyn is the new name of Godbout Electronics/Compupro.  They make
    S-100 machines (very good ones in fact, I have a mostly Compupro CP/M
    machine at home), and Bill Godbout is a friend of Jerry Pournelle's. 
    I guess you had to be there, but for those of us who 'learned
    computers' on these kinds of machines (and watched them virtually
    disappear under a tidal wave of PCs {pseudo-computers}) it was pretty
    funny....
    
    Willie

    
    
    Terry Pratchett is a great source of quotables.....
    
    
    e.g.
    
    	"..the unexpected Limbo dancer under the lavatory door of life."
    
    	"..Something big and unseen passed high overhead, sounding like
    	 a flock of geese on nitrous oxide."
    
    	".. a random spray of magic turned a nearby wall to arsenic
    	 meringue."

        "The Earth is far too fragile a basket for humanity to keep all of
    its eggs in." - Robert Anson Heinlein 
 

        The following is from the December 30, 1989 strip of CALVIN AND 
    HOBBES, by Bill Watterson -
                              
        Hobbes:  "A new decade is coming up."

        Calvin:  "Yeah, big deal!  Hmph.  Where are the flying cars?
                  Where are the Moon colonies?  Where are the personal
                  robots and the zero-gravity boots, huh?  You call 
                  this a new decade?!  You call this the future??  HA!
                  Where are the rocket packs?  Where are the disinte-
                  gration rays??  Where are the floating cities?"

        Hobbes:  "Frankly, I'm not sure people have the brains to manage 
                  the technology they've got."

        Calvin:  "I mean, look at this!  We still have the weather?! 
                  Give me a break!"

        "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't 
    go away." - Philip K. Dick

    RE  .54
             If on the quote "My god its full of stars" your saying
    it came from the book I can't argue...but ! If your saying it came
    from the movie 2001 I believe your mistaken. I recently saw the
    movies 2001 and 2010 and they don't mention that it was his last
    message until the movie 2010. I say this because when I first saw
    2010 and they said that it was his last message and I watched 2001
    again to see and the scene is with Bowman in a pod flying over the
    monolith and the backgroung music is fairly eiree at this time and
    as the light effects start the music gets louder and Bowman is on
    his way.
    
    
                            MDG

    All I know is that it IS said in 2010...
    
    over,
    
    and over,
    
    and over,
    
    and over,  etc.
    
    K.C. (who didn't like either movie.)

        "A society which has been thoroughly swept clean and garnished,
    brought to a high degree of spiritual hygiene, will not produce any
    art...the boundary between 'cleaning up' and 'brainwashing' is very 
    uncertain." - D. J. Enright
    

    re: .-1
    
    Hmmm, and H. R. Giger lives in Switzerland.  The thought hygiene police
    must have missed him.
    
    More generally, the United States is a pretty sanitized society by
    historical standards, and yet it has a vibrant artistic culture, not
    the least of which is SF.  /jlr

        "I love you sons of bitches.  You're all I read anymore.  You're
    the only ones who'll talk about the *really* terrific changes going 
    on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage...
    the only ones with guts enough to *really* care about the future,
    who *really* notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what
    cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us."

       - Eliot Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER

    You left out the part where he says they can't write worth a <forget
    which expletive he used>.
    
    Ray

    "BANG! BANG! BANG! God wanted in REAL bad!"
    
    "I don't know who he is, but he's weird and he's pi$$ed off!"
    
    George