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Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

David Brin

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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
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Glendale
California
USA
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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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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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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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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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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
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All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.
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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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The village is coming back, like it or not.
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'
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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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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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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
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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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Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
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The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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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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