We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. Kim Stanley More Quotes by Kim Stanley More Quotes From Kim Stanley 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 leaving powerful earth 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 corporations citizens ideas 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 support team hands 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 strong class jobs It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Kim Stanley fool people Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. Kim Stanley government law You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. Kim Stanley idiot movement people In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. Kim Stanley disenchantment ends dream Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder Kim Stanley epiphany mountain moments 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 numbers believe thinking 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 waterfalls sound world 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 political mind mistake The invisible hand never picks up the check. Kim Stanley checks invisible-hand hands Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation. Kim Stanley reincarnation ends stories 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 perspective writing trying It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams. Kim Stanley our-lives dream 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 midway century trying It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again. Kim Stanley gone knows forget It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Kim Stanley vietnam memorial war Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since Kim Stanley sad-but-true individual self
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