David Brin Quotes

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The...

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are ...

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: tha...

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of liter...

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Th...

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every ne...

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a w...

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the ...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What...

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague t...

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle the...

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agr...

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one c...

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has n...

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also...

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should thi...

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science ficti...

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by th...

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to ...

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within ...

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, w...

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...