This noisy black creature would be the start of it all: a horse startled, his eye round, scraped white around it, a white tear streak under the eye, also scraped. Mouth open as it whinnied in protest...
Shortness of life was a primary force in the permanence of institutions, strange though it is to say it. But it is so much easier to hold onto whatever short-term survival scheme you have, rather than...
Self-reliance my ass. We’re fucking monkeys. It’s always about teamwork.
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was the basic law of diplomac...
It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task-Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge
If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
A thug. In peacetime Fitch would be hanging around a pool table giving the cops trouble. He was perfect for war. Tibbets had chosen his men well - most of them, anyway. Moving back past Haddock Januar...
—I don’t know how I’ll be as a shaman. I’ll find out when I try it. You both know me. You’ve known me since before we even had names. I can’t travel in my dreams, or above the sky. There aren’t any sp...
People six hundred years later are still complaining about violence inflicted on their ancestors. I think you will find that in most of those cases, there are fresh or current problems that are being...
Bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.
You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.
When in doubt, just do it. Try something and observe the results. Good-enough decision algorithm
We should do this more often, Charlotte lied. For sure, Larry lied back.
We pretend that democracy is real, and
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one el...
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecra...