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The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
David Brin
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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
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Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
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Glendale
California
USA
Glen David Brin
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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
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The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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The village is coming back, like it or not.
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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.
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
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In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.
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Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature
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