All David Brin Quotes
- Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from Beings
- Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall… All
- I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like… Adding
- One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events Events
- But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical… Attraction
- In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… Ad
- The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. Attracted
- If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what… Ask
- For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us… Accept
- I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings. Ambiguous
- We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though,… Already Live
- The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… Appeal
- In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign… All
- There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who… Authors
- Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened… Bringing
- But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. Alien
- Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. Age
- I would normally never set out to write a trilogy. Inspirational
- Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need… All
- You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! Conversation