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• Aluminum was once a precious metal. -- Jules Verne
• It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
  -- Confucius, Analects, IV.3...
• How many science fiction writers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two. One to screw in the light bulb, and one to say, "In 1876, Jules Verne had the first intimations that electrostatic power was a viable energy alternative....
• The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. -- Henry Spence
• One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energy -- maybe even the atom.
  Energy that could ultimately hurl men to other worlds in some sort of spaceship....
• The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the globe.
  Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where a man is never alone, for he can feel life quivering all about him....
• One good thing about being a man is that men don't have to talk each other.