Top 30 Karl Schroeder Quotes
#1. I know that traditionally, monsters hang around empty places for no apparent reason - and
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#2. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied - and hold onto them.
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#4. You must listen!" the tiny monster squeaked. She grabbed it as it made to climb onto the dashboard, and then she shook it fiercely. "No!" she bellowed. "You must listen!
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#5. Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? - A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?
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#6. Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.
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#7. The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.
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#8. If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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#9. My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.
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#10. Oh, I inherited my emotions from Calandria May, and I understand now that each human has a ruling passion, one that serves as the fountainhead from which flow all semblances of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy.
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#11. I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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#12. The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.
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#13. It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to.
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#14. Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.
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#15. Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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#17. Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded.
"We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.
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#18. But the soldiers would have gladly given up their beds to a woman." "Yes, and I hate them for it." She pushed him away. "It's the arrogance of men that leads them to sacrifice themselves. Not real consideration.
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#19. Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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#20. Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
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#21. To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.
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#22. The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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#23. Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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#24. I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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#25. My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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#26. Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.
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#27. There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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#28. An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.
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#29. Every enlightened path can turn on itself and become a new tyranny,
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#30. that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.
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