If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
David BrinIf an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.
David BrinYou don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
David BrinIn the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
David BrinIn historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.
David Brin