“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars.” — 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
