Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent li...

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for in...

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds t...

He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose t...

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning nu...

The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something abou...

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami)...

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life i...

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a littl...

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when th...

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the o...

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by s...

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technici...

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on...

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of t...

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a ham...

There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in fro...

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, ...

A thug. In peacetime Fitch would be hanging around a pool table giving the cops trouble. He was perf...

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don’t you?

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing...

Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compa...

The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,” he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared ...

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue e...

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

Because life is robust,Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than gun...

We demand justice," Jeff says. "we don't have it, the world is a mess because of assholes who think ...

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been sel...

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, educ...

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and ...

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like ...

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a...

We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It abs...

The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of t...

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and...

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ...

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that'...

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why o...

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyp...

They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. ...

He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a conti...