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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Glendale
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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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Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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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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I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
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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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The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases
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But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
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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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Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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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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The village is coming back, like it or not.
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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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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'
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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring
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