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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

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

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense! — David Brin

We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators. — David Brin

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events. — David 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

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. — David Brin

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

Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants. — David Brin

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin

The village is coming back, like it or not. — David Brin

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy. — David Brin

Where is it written that one should only care about big things? — David Brin

The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct. — David Brin

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world. — David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity? — 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

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me. — 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

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now. — 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

a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy. — 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

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage. — 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

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe. — David Brin

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong. — David Brin

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from. — David Brin

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work. — 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

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

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. — David Brin

Keep as few secrets as possible. The remaining ones will be easier to protect. — David Brin

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. — David Brin

Responsibility was our cruel mooring.... — David Brin

Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause. — David Brin

There isn't one America anymore. If there ever had been. — David Brin

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies. — David Brin

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war. — David Brin

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. — David Brin

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. — David 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

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity. — David Brin

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as 'enlightenment. — David 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

Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. — David Brin

In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy. — David Brin

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? — David Brin

But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time. — David Brin

The three basic material rights
continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin

Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty. — 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

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. — David Brin

Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman — David Brin

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings. — David Brin

There was a time, in living memory, when this nation bestrode the planet like a titan. — David Brin

Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. — David 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

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. — David Brin

Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government. — David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin

Prison for the crime of puberty
that was how secondary school had seemed. — David Brin

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts. — David Brin

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning. — David Brin

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. — David 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