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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
— Xavier Niel
People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
— Sergey Brin
Change is the very fabric of our time.
— David Brin
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
— David Brin
While guidebooks might tell you that time collapsed here, another theory says that in Latin America, all of history coexists at once.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
— David Brin
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
— Sergey Brin
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
— Sergey Brin
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
— David Brin
I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
— Sergey Brin
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
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
— David Brin
Life is not fair ... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
— David Brin
Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
— Sergey Brin
When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan
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
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.
— David Brin
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
— David Brin
Too many rules with stifle innovation.
— Sergey Brin
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.
— David Brin
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
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
— David Brin
Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben
— David Brin
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
It was a strange trek - the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.
— David Brin
We aren't a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries ... her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)
— David Brin
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.
— David Brin
The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
— David Brin
Responsibility was our cruel mooring....
— David Brin
That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan
The Book of Brin — Michael J. Sullivan
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
— Sergey Brin
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
— Bruce Sterling
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
— Sergey Brin
Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.
— David Brin
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.
— David Brin
Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
— David Brin
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
— Sergey Brin
Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.
— David Brin
Mayweather was already a gargoyle for our era, a gleaming hood ornament on a demented limo running one red light after another, America's id.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
— Sergey Brin
Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.
Mea Brin, The Huntress — Michelle O'Leary
Mea Brin, The Huntress — Michelle O'Leary
A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
— David Brin
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
— Sergey Brin
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
— David Brin
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks ... who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
— David Brin
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
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
— David Brin
Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.
— David Brin
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
— Sergey Brin
You can make money without doing evil.
— Sergey Brin
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 science.
— David Brin
The three basic material rights
continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin
continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin
We just want to have great people working for us.
— Sergey Brin
I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.
— David Brin
Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can't flush.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
— David Brin
There were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools of oppression.
— David Brin
But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.
— David Brin
We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
— Sergey Brin
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
— David Brin
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
— Sergey Brin
Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder's?
— David Brin