Talk:John W. Campbell

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• Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

• Pioneering basically consists of finding new and more horrible ways to die.

• Show me a creature that thinks as well as a man, or better than a man... but not like a man.
  • Also phrased as "Give me" or "Write me" and "an alien" or "something".

• We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

• When I write, I write only my own stories. As editor, I write the stories that a hundred people write.
  • Said to Isaac Asimov

• You can't do just one thing.
  • Sometimes described as "Campbell's Law of Everything" or "Campbell's Law of Interrelatedness"