Quote

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

Scott Westerfeld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Band
Exposed
Company
Scientists
Idea
Oil
Ideas
Plot
World
Companies
Environmental
Contrive
Scientist
Billionaires
Crisis
Billionaire

More quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Image
Okay... That's still blind-making.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
Scott Westerfeld
Image
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
One of the most common questions writers are asked is Where do you get your ideas? But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
It's just been a long week, that's all. It's monday night, Jess. My point exactly.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. But you're... Pretty? Think again. She smiled. I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look, she said. No, David said. It changes the way you think.
Scott Westerfeld