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I find humans tremendously interesting. ↗

— David Brin

#humans #i #interesting #tremendously

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. ↗

— David Brin

#america #been #before #being #bio

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#back #because #bit #buy #car

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. ↗

— David Brin

#comes #convey #credible #duty #feel

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. ↗

— David Brin

#bringing #called #child #debt #full

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#angst #climb #enormous #existential #feel

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#book #could #easily #effort #google

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#already #everyone #get #go #growing

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#because #contention #contests #defeat #harbor