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David Brin Quotes
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I would normally never set out to write a trilogy (David Brin Quotes)
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior (David Brin Quotes)
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy (David Brin Quotes)
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe (David Brin Quotes)
I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings (David Brin Quotes)
The sane are usually attracted by other things than power (David Brin Quotes)
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? (David Brin Quotes)
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, does it? (David Brin Quotes)
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else (David Brin Quotes)
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 could not parse a differential equation to save their lives (David Brin Quotes)
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea (David Brin Quotes)
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones (David Brin Quotes)
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal (David Brin Quotes)
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power (David Brin Quotes)
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view (David Brin Quotes)
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now (David Brin Quotes)
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego (David Brin Quotes)
In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it’s not necessarily true that everyone needs to march (David Brin Quotes)
Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse (David Brin Quotes)
Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right (David Brin Quotes)
After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who’s got delusions of adequacy? (David Brin Quotes)
A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground (David Brin Quotes)
It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered (David Brin Quotes)
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 and the rise of fundamentalist Islam. And I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases (David Brin Quotes)
He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important (David Brin Quotes)
You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! (David Brin Quotes)
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 criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error (David Brin Quotes)
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted (David Brin Quotes)
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph (David Brin Quotes)
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