Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson
Spider Robinsonis an American-born Canadian Hugo Award- and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 November 1948
CountryCanada
two-sides rupture threatening
Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
mean college games
And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
honesty hard-work hard
honesty is hard work.
pain joy
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
done like-you compliment
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
men apollo mars
The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
life advice faces
To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
stupid men kind
Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
pain giving joy
You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.
lying people track
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
indulge-in iron felons
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
secret library world
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
life-is-short writing never-settle
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…
pain law joy
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.