David Brin People Quotations

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are self-righteous a lot are apparently doping themselves rhythmically with auto-secreted surges of dopamine, endorphins and enkephalins. Didn't you ever ask yourself why indignation feels so good?

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.