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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#covering #diverse #every #flavour #group

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#depressing #easy #future #harder #imagine

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#ahead #awfully #been #change #developments

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#avoid #better #else #futures #good

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#behind #biggest #brought #changes #desktop

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#could #facilitate #hygiene #install #police

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#background #calculations #close #close attention #doing

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#around #been #catches #example #eyes

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely. ↗

— Florent Schmitt

#i #like #listening #make #more