- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
- Heartbeats
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
- Humans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find humans tremendously interesting.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest hypocrisy on the planet right now is for those who defend capitalism to not be in favor of radical transparency, for all of us to know who owns everything. And that is my militant, radical, moderate, pro-capitalist, pro-Enlightenment, ferocious stand.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Existence' is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved to at least begin taking preliminary precautions in case the correlation proves to be causative.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'
- Inner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secrecy is the underlying mistake that makes every innovation go wrong in Michael Crichton novels and films! If AI happens in the open, then errors and flaws may be discovered in time... perhaps by other, wary AIs!
- Enlightenment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there's a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don't necessarily share yours, and hence they will help you penetrate yours through the miracle of criticism!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I see a new film, I deliberately tune down several 'dials' in my mind - critical faculties associated with logic, plotting, science - just so I can retain some ability to enjoy a flick in the spirit it's offered.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020