“First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.” IfsLifeFirstsStoriesFoundQuietEvidenceContactAliensInvasionFirst ContactAlien Life Author:Sarah Zettel
“Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.” PeopleFirstsCultureCreativityCreativeClothesMusic IsConcernedContactPassiveFirst ContactCreative Music Author:Martin Freeman
“There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).” ThinkingFirstsKindRememberEnemyPlansImpossibleDangerContactUnnecessaryAdaptationSeducingIcebergFirst Contact Author:Tim Harford
“Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsMadeLyingCertainUniverseStarsEffortRolesMillionsMankindPolicyWalkingMoonActiveScalesPracticalsContactCosmicPassiveStar GazingFirst ContactIsolationism Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.” KnowsFirstsCultureKissingMouthsAttractionContactPacificExplorersExchangingFirst ContactSaliva Author:Joshua Foer