Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Existence' is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? — David Brin Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
