All Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
- 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. And… Among
- You can only kill disappointment with a new try. Disappointment
- One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. Chief
- You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that… Almost Always
- Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing… Call
- When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. Check
- The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young… Age
- It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. Else Nothing
- Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or… Atom
- The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police… Anarchist
- That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. Anarchist
- Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement… Been
- Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end.… Agonizing
- All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as… All
- History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. Faster
- I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed,… Adventure
- Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. Afterward
- What we need is equality without conformity. Conformity
- History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… Control
- Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. Action