“ It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Revolution meant shattering one structure and creating another one, but shattering was easier than creating, and so the two parts of the act were not necessarily fated to be equally successful. In tha… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind, he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any oth… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ 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 Robinson
“ Interesting, in this context, to contemplate what it might mean to be programmed to do something. Texts from Earth speak of the servile will. This was a way to explain the presence of evil, which is a… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ From the road he wrote bitterly to Sagredo: Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ There's all kinds of phantom work! Unreal values assigned to most of the jobs on Earth! The entire transnational executive class does nothing a computer couldn't do, and there are whole categories of… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Survival of the fittest, which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling or… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ The Earth is bathed in a flood of sunlight. A fierce inundation of photons—on average, 342 joules per second per square meter. 4185 joules (one calorie) will raise the temperature of one kilogram of w… Kim Stanley Robinson
“ Actually, I’d better look that thing up and find out what it’s called. I’m pretty sure it has a name. Everything has a name! Yes, I guess that’s right. Kim Stanley Robinson
