Philip K. Dick

Born 16 December 1928 · Died 2 March 1982

From Chicago, Illinois, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.

Quotes

“Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, “I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.””
"The Android and the Human" 1972 , reprinted in The Dark-Haired Girl 1988 and
“Ramp hawkers were peddling “methods,” low priced sure-fire theories guaranteed to predict bottle twitches and beat the whole Minimax game. The hawkers were ignored by the hurrying throngs of people; anybody with a genuine system of prediction would be using it, not selling it.”
Solar Lottery, Chapter 1
“Time to get up,” he informed her. “Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?”
Eye in the Sky, Chapter 8
“In all possible universes, Monday was the same.”
Eye in the Sky, Chapter 9
“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”
The Man in the High Castle