Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops.” He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. “See,” he said, “using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
