Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.