“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death;… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“was fighting the war on a level where it might actually mean something, might have some use, might be a matter of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“He says, “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Marriage," Swan repeated, marveling at the word. To her it was a concept from the Middle Ages, from old Earth--an idea with… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“But for now it’s goodbye to the beaches, and indeed many a celebrated island of yore now lies deep under the waves.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. without the human presence it is just a concatenation of atoms, no different… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Because life is robust, Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than guns and poison and bad zoning policy,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“The Earth is bathed in a flood of sunlight. A fierce inundation of photons—on average, 342 joules per second per square meter. 4185 joules… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“There remained a main melody, or a path through a maze—a maze that was like the delta of the Po. He seemed to look… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“Must redefine utopia. It isn't the perfect end-product of our wishes, define it so and it deserves the scorn of those who sneer when… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
“Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share
