It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams. Kim Stanley More Quotes by Kim Stanley More Quotes From Kim Stanley 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 rapidly. Kim Stanley technologypeopleneeds 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. Kim Stanley leavingpowerfulearth 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— Kim Stanley corporationscitizensideas When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends? Kim Stanley supportteamhands 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 after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike. Kim Stanley strongclassjobs It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Kim Stanley foolpeople Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. Kim Stanley governmentlaw You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. Kim Stanley idiotmovementpeople In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. Kim Stanley disenchantmentendsdream Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder Kim Stanley epiphanymountainmoments The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y. Kim Stanley numbersbelievethinking 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. Kim Stanley waterfallssoundworld It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Kim Stanley politicalmindmistake The invisible hand never picks up the check. Kim Stanley checksinvisible-handhands Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation. Kim Stanley reincarnationendsstories 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 are trying to take a different perspective on now. Kim Stanley perspectivewritingtrying It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history. Kim Stanley midwaycenturytrying It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again. Kim Stanley goneknowsforget It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Kim Stanley vietnammemorialwar Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since Kim Stanley sad-but-trueindividualself
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