Kim Stanley Robinson
Related ARI GRAYNOR There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thin... SOL LEWITT TERRY PRATCHETT BILL NYE WILLIAM GIBSON Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u... PAOLO BACIGALUPI All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd... PAOLO BACIGALUPI WILLIAM SHATNER COLUM MCCANN NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON DAVID S. GOYER RIDLEY SCOTT TAD WILLIAMS SEANAN MCGUIRE I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f... CECILIA BARTOLI OCTAVIA BUTLER STEVEN SPIELBERG CARRIE FISHER DAVID GERROLD BILL NYE DEAN ORNISH JOSH FOX ADAM SAVAGE SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that,... DAVID CONYERS And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with... BERENICE MARLOHE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE KID CUDI The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody t... GAVID HOOD URSULA K. LE GUIN STERLING K. BROWN When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity. TED KOTCHEFF OCTAVIA BUTLER HANNAH SIMONE The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more ... DUNCAN JONES Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Some... MARK KNOPFLER Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese... ROBERT J. SAWYER JOYCE MEYER MICHIO KAKU PAT ROBERTSON You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the... NALO HOPKINSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read... KEVIN J. ANDERSON DAVID PETRAEUS ELLEN STOFAN Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if ... CARLY FIORINA In fact, science is neither materialist nor idealist; it is simply science. It’s impartial and can... VALERIAN PIDMOHYLNY BEN AFFLECK Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you&#... ZACHARY KNIGHTON You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vac... MIKE WHITE SARAH HYLAND DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and ... ALEX GRAVES Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the un... FINN WITTROCK We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists con... MICHAEL NIELSEN I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting t... SCOTT AUKERMAN RIDLEY SCOTT BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If... TOM COBURN 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction. BEN BROWDER RAY KURZWEIL VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your o... NIGEL KENNEDY WILLIAM GIBSON There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, t... BRAD CARSON SAM YAGAN You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo... IAIN BANKS I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER NEIL GAIMAN Business is about the science of Quality Management…the science of getting happy customers and kee... ALLAN AANONSON EDWARD HIRSCH I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storyli... MATTHEW DAVIS LOUIS C. K. AARON RODGERS ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN PETER THIEL It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such excit... LAUREL CLARK GARTH NIX MICHIO KAKU MIKE JOHANNS There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. FRED SABERHAGEN RIDLEY SCOTT When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we'r... KARAN MAHAJAN NATALIE PORTMAN FRANCIS COLLINS I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimist... DAVID EDDINGS Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and yo... DANIEL BRYAN If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rh... TAJ MAHAL IAN MCKELLEN You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the busi... MEREDITH WHITNEY STEWART BUTTERFIELD MADS MIKKELSEN HARRY KROTO WALKER PERCY Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidenc... KATE VOEGELE CAITLIN MORAN JOHN WOODEN PHIL JACKSON
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That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami)... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that'... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter,... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, educ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha... 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