"All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads."
- Kim Stanley Robinson
"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 robots too. They showed up and worked generation afte..."
"Because life is robust,Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than guns and poison and bad zoning policy, stronger than capitalism,Because Mother Nature bats last, and Mo..."
"I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in ..."
"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 live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—"
"In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in..."
"You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you)."
"It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream."
"It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped..."
"Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long."