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
entropy joy pain refute shared thus
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy
attribute canadian-writer reasonably
Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
deserves god seems
Everyone deserves to die. God seems to think so.
giving heaven wicked
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...
disguise
Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
fun smart hard-work
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.
children cracks librarian
Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
pain joy entropy
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
euphemism
Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
land perception age
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
may fool too-late
To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
reality psychosis patterns
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
pants pairs ass
And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
ends
A beginning is the end of something, always.