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
deserves god seems
Everyone deserves to die. God seems to think so.
entropy joy pain refute shared thus
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy
secret library world
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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.
done like-you compliment
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
honesty hard-work hard
honesty is hard work.
disguise
Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
euphemism
Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
ends
A beginning is the end of something, always.
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.
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.
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.