Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.