Karl Schroeder Quotes

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to.

My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.

I know that traditionally, monsters hang around empty places for no apparent reason - and

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Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

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Every enlightened path can turn on itself and become a new tyranny,