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
couple smart thinking
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
warm
It's always coldest before the warm.
iron hot
God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
land perception age
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
dirty tired sunday
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
forever trying asking
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
rights vests intercourse
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
design failing over-it
...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
death suicide forever
I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
pants pairs ass
And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
fiction way robots
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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.
pain joy entropy
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
teaching information containers
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.