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?
thinking littles imbeciles
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
entropy joy pain refute shared thus
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy
warm
It's always coldest before the warm.
iron hot
God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
crazy moving speed
We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
death suicide forever
I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
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.
rights vests intercourse
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
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.
fall dark mad
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
teaching information containers
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
baby air hands
We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
design failing over-it
...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.