Greg Bear quotes - page 2

When evenly matched, you cannot win against your enemy unless you understand them. And if you truly understand, why are you fighting and not talking? (Greg Bear)
That's insane,” Lanier said. "Not very. It's politics.
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A Stellar's jay hopped along behind him, watching closely for dropped crumbs. "It's dark,” he told the bird. "Go to sleep. I've eaten already. Where were you? No food now.” The bird persisted, however; it knew humans were liars.
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Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.
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Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?
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We must know our enemy, at least a little.” "That's dangerous,” Prufrax said, almost instinctively. "Yes, it is. What you know, you cannot hate.
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We'd like to agree with you.” He glanced at Arthur. "We can't, however,” Arthur said. "For the moment, then, amicable disagreement and open minds.
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The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound-that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?
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Nothing will ever be the same again. Good! Wonderful! Wasn't it all badly flawed anyway? No, perhaps not. Not until now.
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He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences. But wasn't that true of every creator? Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people-perhaps many people-to death, grief, torment?
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It's not impossible,” Minelli said. "No,” Edward admitted, "but it's paranoid as hell, and that's the last thing we need, more fear. (Greg Bear)
We've been fighting for so long, we've begun to lose ourselves. And it's getting worse.
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Very evocative. He seems to be confirming what I said last year-that the universe really has no underpinnings, that when a good hypothesis comes along, one that explains the prior events, the underpinnings shape themselves to accommodate and a powerful theory is born.” "Then there is no ultimate reality?” "Apparently not. Bad hypotheses, those that don't fit what happen on our level, are rejected by the universe. Good ones, powerful ones, are incorporated.
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When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
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For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!
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Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
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We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.
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I'm going to take you out tonight,” he said. "Another Heisenberg dinner.” "What's that?” "Uncertainty,” Edward said crisply. "We know where we are going, but not what we are going to eat. Or vice versa.” "Sounds wonderful. Which car?” "The Quantum, of course.” "Oh, Lord. We just had the speedometer fixed.” "And the steering went out?
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The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound-that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self.
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We must know our enemy, at least a little. (Greg Bear)
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
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