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

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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
Screenwriter
Writer
Glendale
California
USA
Glen David Brin
Spins
Silently
Contemplating
Sarcastic
Universe
Born
Means
Mean
Gaia

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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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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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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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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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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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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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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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Change is the very fabric of our time.
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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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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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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
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But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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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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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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