Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

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• That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.479, Spectra

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• Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  World, Littles, Easier

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2004). “Forty Signs of Rain”, p.94, Spectra

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• When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Environment

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• And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beautiful, Morning, Flower

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Writing, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

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• Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Powerful, Numbers, Astrology

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.314, Spectra

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• You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Disappointment, Trying

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• I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Thinking, Flames, Denial

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Color, Sky, Rainbow

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.456, Spectra

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Rocks, Ideas

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “The Years of Rice and Salt”, p.447, Spectra

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• What we need is equality without conformity.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Needs, Conformity

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.365, Spectra

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• Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Struggle, Names, Forever

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.95, Macmillan

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• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inability, Incompetence, Chiefs

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra

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• The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Wife, Veils, Hadith

  "The Years of Rice and Salt". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002.

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• It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Easy, Multiple, Persons

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2015). “Green Earth”, p.673, Del Rey

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• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Heart, Science, Numbers

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• If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  War, Stupid, Kids

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Lying, People, Wanted

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.16, Spectra

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• In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Expanding Universe, Order, Differences

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.480, Spectra

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• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Fighting, Ideas, Water

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.423, Spectra

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• History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Events, Horizon, Infinity

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra

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• Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Science, Weapons, Scientist

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.171, Spectra

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• There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements per se do not necessarily reduce our impacts because we immediately double down on how much we use.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Technology, Energy, Improvement

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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