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Science Fiction Author Inspirational Quotes (35)

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If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.
Ramez Naam
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It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.
Steven Gould
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
Ramez Naam
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Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.
Steven Gould
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God, I love the fine morality of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.
David Weber
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You know, he said, every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
Elizabeth Bear
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You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.
Ramez Naam
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That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.
Ramez Naam
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I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.
Ramez Naam
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We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.
Ramez Naam
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There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Steven Gould
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Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.
Ramez Naam
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In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Bradley Denton
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We don't have good global policies in place for climate.
Ramez Naam
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By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.
Ramez Naam
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She said, You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage? In compassion. Because of necessity. Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. The same way you carry water.
Elizabeth Bear
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says don't worry - everything will be just fine and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.
Ramez Naam
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In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.
Ramez Naam
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The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.
Elizabeth Bear
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Bradley Denton
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Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.
Ramez Naam
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We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)
David Weber
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Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.
David Weber
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