The Accidental Time Machine - Sample Quotations

Sample Quotations

"Even a tiny change here could profoundly affect the future. Don't step on a butterfly." (15)

"But you couldn't come back, like the guy in the Wells novel, and warn everybody about the Morlocks." (15)

"Meanwhile, it wasn't only science that had changed drastically in the past sixteen years. Movies were either dumb static domestic comedies (during which the audience laughed insanely at things that didn't seem to be funny) or brutal bloodbaths from Japan or India." (72)

"Popular books seemed to be written for either slow children or Ph.D's." (73)

"The anomaly of the bioengineered fish was no anomaly, actually; this culture was going to be a mixture of high technology and low. He had to keep his eyes and mind open." (101)

"Believe me the future doesn't get any better on Earth. I've been there. It's a closed book." (243)

"Well you didn't actually 'discover' anything, did you? You just used a component that was faulty in a dimension you can't even sense. Like the family dog accidentally starting the car." (244)

"The more things change, the more they stay the same." (246)

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