You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You a….

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really ….

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through e….

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing ro….

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power..

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation..

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing..

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends..

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Terri….

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams..

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart..

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did..

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we l….

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting..

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole uni….

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind..

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks….

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot..

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can scr….

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance..