David Brin Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

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  Political, Empowering, Democracy

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• 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.

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  Reality, Rose, Joy

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.251, Spectra

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• Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

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  Pie, Failing, Cream

  David Brin (2009). “The Uplift War”, p.58, Spectra

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• You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

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  Watches, Disaster, Conversation

  David Brin (2010). “Startide Rising”, p.236, Spectra

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• 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.

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  Character, Writing, Ideas

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• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

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  Selfish, Real, Book

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• In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

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  Errors, Law, Trial And Error

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

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  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

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  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

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• Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

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  Inspirational, Life, Mirrors

  David Brin (2013). “Exiles: The Uplift Storm Trilogy”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

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  Errors, Accountability, Criticism

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• My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

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  Writing, Surfing, Literature

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

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  Dark, World, Vivid

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

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  Hate, Leader, Criticism

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?”, p.11, Basic Books

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• Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

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  Men, Views, Seductive

  "Earth". Book by David Brin, 1990.

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

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  Popularity, Elusive

  David Brin (2010). “Startide Rising”, p.195, Spectra

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• If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

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  Writing, Family Friends, Family Life

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• The village is coming back, like it or not.

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  Community, Village, Coming Back

  David Brin, Matt Bai, Melissa Febos, Joseph Sutton, Mike Siegel (2017). “1984 in the 21st Century: An Anthology of Essays”, p.10, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

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• In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

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  Fighting, Needs, Diplomats

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• It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Mind

  David Brin (2010). “Brightness Reef”, p.548, Spectra

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• Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

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  School, Prison, Crime

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.367, Spectra

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• 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.

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  People, Age, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

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  Children, People, Different

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• It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

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  Past, Paradise, Replacements

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