Now we say that everything Lenin taught us of communism was false, and everything he taught us of capitalism, true.

William Gibson(1948-):Pattern recognition(2003), sivu 303.

Ihmisen ikä on tuskin sataa vuotta,
kaiken aikaa hän silti tuntee
tuhannen vuoden huolet.

Pertti Nieminen(1929-): Sinusta erossa. Kiinalaisia kansanlauluja kahdentuhannen vuoden takaa(1984), sivu 42. Katkelma runosta Läntinen portti.

The fact that one can reduce whole genres of fiction to fairly simple formulas seems to most literary critics to be a blanket certificate of worthlessness.

Brian Stableford(1948-): The Way to Write Science Fiction(1989), sivu 67.

Erikoistumattomuutta kutsutaan usein alkeellisuudeksi.

Juha Valste(1945-): Apinasta ihmiseksi(2004), sivu 23.

Indeed, the attempt to foist upon people who are supposedly living two hundred tears from now the foibles, verbal habits and moral outlooks of the present day is rather absurd. There are no characters in fiction who seem more ridiculous to us than the ones which writers of the nineteenth century invented to populate their visions of our times.

Brian Stableford(1948-):The Way to Write Science Fiction(1989), sivu 61.

Knowing what someone is like is a matter of knowing how they relate to their environment; we can quickly get a sense of the particular personality of a fictitious character if we can observe his or her idiosyncratic response to a situation which we already understand in terms of norms and customs.

Brian Stableford(1948-): The Way to Write Science Fiction(1989, sivu 60.

"The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the  fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now... I only know that the one constant in history is change:  The past changes. Our version of the past will interest the future to about the extent we´re  interested in whatever past the Victorians believed in. It simply won´t seem very relevant."

William Gibson(1948-): Pattern Recognition(2003), sivu 57.

Vain sanat tekevät meistä ihmisiä ja luovat yhteyttä välillemme.

Michel de Montaigne(1533-1592): Esseitä. Osa I(2003; Essais, 1580-88), sivu 41.

He´ll always choose the path of least bloodshed. But if some bloodshed is required... well, my counterpart won´t flinch from a little surgical butchery.

Alastair Reynolds(1966-):Redemption Ark(2003), sivu 558.

My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He
believes he has right on his side. And men who think that they have right on their side
are always the most dangerous sort.

Alastair Reynolds(1966-): Redemption Ark(2003), sivu 558.

Älkää tuhotko
ettei teitä tuhottaisi.

Eila Kaustia(1913-1996): Kaukana, lähestymässä(1991), sivu 82.

Aseettomat ihmiset
puolustavat ihmisoikeuksiaan.
Armeija puolustautuu
aseettomia vastaan.

Brita Polttila(1920-2008): Kysymyksiä, kokoelmasta Ajan seinä on tuuli(1994), sivu 61.

...each of these parties wanted to take power at any price
(most often, at the price of their brothers´ blood).

Ryszard Kapuscinski(1932-2007): Another Day of Life (2001; Jeszcze dzien zycia, 1976), sivu xi.