Inspirational Quotes by Frederik Pohl (American Author)

Frederik George Pohl (1919–2013) was an American science-fiction writer. He is best known for using the genre as a mode of social criticism and exploring the long-term consequences of technology in an ailing society.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Pohl was a high-school dropout, but by the time he was 20 years old, he edited the science-fiction magazines Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories. In 1938, he became a founder of a group of left-wing science-fiction writers called the Futurists, which included Isaac Asimov and C. M. Kornbluth.

Pohl served in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, worked as a literary agent, and edited various science-fiction magazines (1953–69.)

Of Pohl’s vast output of novels, stories, and anthologies, The Space Merchants (1953; the first modern satire of American consumerism) and Gladiator-at-law (1955,) both written with C. M. Kornbluth, exemplify his social concern and strength as a storyteller. Later novels include Man Plus (1976,) Jem (1979,) and Far Shore of Time (1999.)

Pohl’s memoir is The Way the Future Was (1978.)

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You don’t think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell’s own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
—Frederik Pohl

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it.
—Frederik Pohl
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Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.
—Frederik Pohl

Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
—Frederik Pohl

That’s what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you’re through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
—Frederik Pohl

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