John W. Campbell

"History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club."

"Suppose you meet a man who asks you what your field of endeavor is and you tell him that you are the world's greatest living vertebrate paleontologist, which is, of course, what you are. And suppose t…"

"John W. Campbell at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database"

"Campbell, for whom was named, was a fucking fascist. Through his editorial control of , he is responsible for setting a tone for science fiction that haunts this genre to this very day."

"Of course, I never wrote the "important" story, the sequel about the first amplified human. Once I tried something similar. John Campbell's letter of rejection began: "Sorry — you can't write this sto…"

"In the so-called Golden Age of American science fiction, when the late John W. Campbell, editor extraordinary, gathered around him in a handful of months the greatest stable of science fiction talent …"

"John W. Campbell at the Open Directory Project"

"Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely."