Robert J. Sawyer quote: "I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach."

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Honor does not have to be defended.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book a...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligibl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the W...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
DIANE SAWYER

I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I ...
AVERY SAWYER

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.
CHARLES SAWYER

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
CHARLES SAWYER

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ...
DIANE SAWYER

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
DIANE SAWYER

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce...
DIANE SAWYER

Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.
ANDRENA SAWYER

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn...
DIANE SAWYER

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that ...
DIANE SAWYER

I hear winter's really cold up here.
CEDRIC SAWYER

The Lord was good to us.
CEDRIC SAWYER

If you could have seen what we saw ... dead bodies floating everywhere.
CEDRIC SAWYER

The water started rising. It started out about a foot high. Within five hours, it was covering the t...
CEDRIC SAWYER

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hop...
CHARLES SAWYER

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
DIANE SAWYER

The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks th...
STEVE SAWYER

Or, she used Bonne Bell Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker. It's a great color and she loves it.
TRICIA SAWYER

I think we maybe underestimated our opponent a little bit. We weren't as focused as we needed to be ...
TOM SAWYER

The Dixie Chicks Come Clean.
DIANE SAWYER

I never showed favoritism. I was also consistent on the viewpoints I had. Mike's got to get his fact...
CHARLES SAWYER

This thing smells wrong. They should be making sure that there's no hint whatsoever of any political...
KEN SAWYER

We are very excited to continue our association with Thurston Spring Service Inc. and Bill Thurston....
CLARKE SAWYER

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
DIANE SAWYER

Video games teach resource management, collaboration, critical thinking, and tolerance for failure.
BEN SAWYER

The offense was unstoppable at times, but we just couldn't get the ball in the end zone. We had almo...
TOM SAWYER

Having local ownership is a great asset, and we would look very favorably on that. All things equal ...
KEN SAWYER

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.
AVERY SAWYER

So, yes, in that sense, things look pretty good for Franklin.
AMY SAWYER

The basics of the work presented at the Game Developers Conference today by the Games for Health Tea...
BEN SAWYER

The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity.
ANDRENA SAWYER

We're always open at looking at ways to make health insurance more affordable for small business own...
JOEL SAWYER

They're very athletic, have a big (offensive line) and run the ball very well. We know they come and...
TOM SAWYER

This is good-old boy budgeting. The fact that being a son of a senator entitles you to a state posit...
JOEL SAWYER

The vision I see in the mirror is me, who I am, supposedly, but that vision does not express the way...
VICTORIA SAWYER

And it's not just us, I've seen other journalists doing it as well, anything that we have we're givi...
DIANE SAWYER

He really did make us raise our sights.
DIANE SAWYER

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.
DIANE SAWYER

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
DIANE SAWYER

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acc...
DIANE SAWYER

We will be making an announcement tomorrow regarding the Department of Commerce, but I can't comment...
JOEL SAWYER

When Dan Cooper puts together a budget that shatters state spending records, I can understand why he...
JOEL SAWYER

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.
ANDRENA SAWYER

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyo...
ANDRENA SAWYER

We shoot ourselves in the foot because we don't talk about it.
BEN SAWYER

It was scattered. They weren't playing well and then all of a sudden we fell apart. We were kind of ...
TOM SAWYER

It shouldn't cost the taxpayers of this state $64,000 to keep the lieutenant governor 's speedometer...
JOEL SAWYER

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've wor...
DIANE SAWYER

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention
DIANE SAWYER

Is there one image, ... that symbolizes to you the dimension of what happened?
DIANE SAWYER

Live boldly now. Later may not be an option.
ANDRENA SAWYER

As we would like to appoint someone from every geographical region of the state, with only three app...
JOEL SAWYER

There won't have to be tax increases.
DIANE SAWYER

We had too many missed blocking assignments, and that takes you out of your game,
TOM SAWYER

Hynes did a nice job in the receiving part of his game, but everyone made mistakes out there.
TOM SAWYER

I thought Boettcher did a nice job,
TOM SAWYER

We're upset. We should be upset. We got beat by a team that just wanted it more that day, and we hav...
TOM SAWYER

It is really a pretty crucial time right now.
TOM SAWYER

We were really hoping to be 2-0 when we got there, but we'll take 1-1. This is a great opportunity f...
TOM SAWYER

We got everything we wanted. We got the people back. We got the alumni back. The setback was that we...
TOM SAWYER

I don't want to step on anyone's toes, but I'd match this facility against any in the country. I've ...
BILL SAWYER

I couldn't believe it. We jog down here every day and it smells pretty bad.
BILL SAWYER

With the success of the Victory Lap Challenge over the last three years, we felt it was imperative t...
BILL SAWYER

When it comes to purpose and preparation, most of us want to skip the preparation part and get right...
ANDRENA SAWYER

Jake, I saw that you talked to him. What adjective did he use for what he said?
DIANE SAWYER

Never underestimate the power of passion.
EVE SAWYER

The governor has consistently said, in any kind of port expansion, he'd like to see some kind of pub...
JOEL SAWYER

She's naturally beautiful and has one standard look throughout the movie. It was mainly blush, lip g...
TRICIA SAWYER

We wanted (the sculpture) to have a link to skiing, but we also wanted to make it spiritual.
KEN SAWYER

Your head is filling up...
MATTHEW SAWYER

I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. ...
JASON SAWYER

It's the biggest game of the year.
CHANTZ SAWYER

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, b...
DIANE SAWYER

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
DIANE SAWYER

The skills are so high-level that it has to be an unrestricted uniform.
JAMIE SAWYER

Great questions make great reporting.
DIANE SAWYER

Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it...
ANDRENA SAWYER

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all jus...
ANDRENA SAWYER

The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.
ANDRENA SAWYER

One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.
MATTHEW SAWYER

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went...
DIANE SAWYER

It's not something we've reviewed in detail yet.
JOEL SAWYER

We are continually upgrading the safety aspects of our facility due to situations we hear and read a...
CLARKE SAWYER

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not ver...
DIANE SAWYER

I think, in essence, we don't want to see anything change. We love this town.
ED SAWYER

We've gone from zero percent of our raw materials purchased in Asia to 75 percent of our raw materia...
ED SAWYER

I knew that everyone would know who we were. There was still an on going business here. It wasn't li...
ED SAWYER

Standing on the podium waving the American flag in a foreign country holding three gold medals while...
ED SAWYER

I think insomnia is a sign a person is interesting.
AVERY SAWYER

If guilt was an object, I knew it was a stone that sat right on you, pinning you down, showing no me...
AVERY SAWYER

I wondered about the kids who everyone had decided were bad. The lost ones, the problems. What becam...
AVERY SAWYER

We all make mistakes. We all mess up. The trick is to wake up the next day and keep trying, keep sho...
AVERY SAWYER

It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.
AVERY SAWYER

I couldn't imagine living in a state that didn't reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You c...
AVERY SAWYER

It's always interesting. He's willing to let you use your creativity to get things done.
JANE SAWYER

We always like to top the number we made the year before. But we're running a little behind last yea...
JANE SAWYER

We really want to put the smaller firms with the big contractors and let them meet face-to-face. It'...
JANE SAWYER

Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contrac...
JASON SAWYER

It's easy to make a lightweight calf gain 3.5 lbs./day. If you've averaged 1.8 lbs. historically and...
JASON SAWYER

Labor is such a key issue that self-feeding is an attractive option. Occasionally, however, we'll ge...
JASON SAWYER

I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. ...
JASON SAWYER

Limit or program feeding allows you to extend the marketing window while protecting condition in the...
JASON SAWYER

It was a good effort but BCC played well and deserved it today.
HEATHER SAWYER

I think the whole team played well and we had a very strong serve-receive.
HEATHER SAWYER

We had a good night. Everybody got to play at some point.
HEATHER SAWYER

Our defense has been getting better. The last two weeks in practice, we've seen an amazing improveme...
HEATHER SAWYER

Good morals and values start at home and a uniform won't change that.
JAMIE SAWYER

It's the typical uniform of what's in the industry, just about 95% of other gyms across the country ...
JAMIE SAWYER

Lord, help us to choose humility over pride.
Help us to choose love over our reputation.
ANDRENA SAWYER

[Courtney] has been developing her bat all season and has really come into her own.
LINDSAY SAWYER

That's such a morale booster. It's really great to overcome that mark, and the sky's the limit for u...
LINDSAY SAWYER

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like...
DIANE SAWYER

The governor's agenda has always been one of smaller government, less spending, more choices for par...
JOEL SAWYER

We believe she's leading the department in the right direction.
JOEL SAWYER

A group of people from diverse backgrounds say the solution is in better collaboration and better go...
JOEL SAWYER

One of the biggest things we can get out of it is finding out what stakeholders expect from state go...
JOEL SAWYER

We would certainly be concerned about yet another expansion in the state's higher education system a...
JOEL SAWYER

That's great news. The governor welcomes his support. We hope and, ultimately, believe it's indicati...
JOEL SAWYER

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent ...
JOEL SAWYER

He's laid out pretty much where he's coming from in the coming (legislative) session. What he says r...
JOEL SAWYER

The governor believes that protecting the safety of people and property is one of government's basic...
JOEL SAWYER

The Shelly he knew had tried too hard to be sexy. This woman didn’t bother with make-up or fixing ...
MERYL SAWYER

Typically, it's going to be the black animals that are adopted last.
MICHELLE SAWYER

She even looks fabulous early in the morning.
DIANE SAWYER

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run n...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, th...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, becaus...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learn...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

I need physics more than friends.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use m...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.
ROBERT J. SHILLER

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
ROBERT J. RINGER

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have ...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
ROBERT J. RINGER

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first th...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the...
ROBERT J. RINGER

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or wit...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like t...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.
ROBERT J. RINGER

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
ROBERT J. MCKAIN

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and ...
ROBERT J. MCKAIN

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

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I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

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