Poul Anderson Quotes


"We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?"
- Poul Anderson
"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."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Harvest, Machine, Personality, Stars, Will)

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Right)

"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."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Science, First, Harvest, Obvious, Stars, Writing)