Quotes from Dr. Futurity ( 1960 )

He didn't mind having his car operated from a hundred miles off. All the other cars racing along the sixteen-lane highway were guide-operated, too, those going his way and those heading in the opposite direction, on the analog highway to Los Angeles. It made accidents almost impossible, and meant he could enjoy the educational notices which various universities traditionally posted along the route.

Wouldn't be long before all industries were in the hands of the ten-man Economics Planning Board, operating under the Westinghouse research schools. Of course, when it came to doctors, that was another thing.

…French - a language of no real current importance, but forced on them by tradition.

"It's madness! Don't you see what would happen if everybody were healed? All the sick and injured? The old?" "no wonder his society collapsed."

"We make no attempt to rehabilitate the criminal…that would be an invasion of his rights. And, from a practical standpoint, it doesn't work. We don't want sub-standard persons in our society."

Which was more realistic? This integration of death into the society, or the neurotic refusal of his own society to consider death at all?

"Too bad I can't play…We had TV, in our period."

"Human beings are a cheap commodity in history."

How close the idealist, with his fanatical passion, was to the mentally disturbed.

"You don't identify with those conquerors, do you? And yet they built your civilization. We plucked you from the latter part of that world." "I didn't burn witches, either. I have no sense of identification with many of those things. Are all whites alike?"