Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Biography
Dickson was born in Edmonton Alberta in 1923. From 1948 through 1950 he attended the University of Minnesota for graduate work. For a great part of his life he suffered from the effects of asthma.

Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1 1923 – January 31 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer.