Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.