David Brin

"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? Most fictional portrayals of life-extension simply t…"

"Anyone who tries to predict the future is inevitably a fool. Present company included. A prophet without a sense of humor is just stupid."

"All of David Brin's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You"

"Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse."

"One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it."

"“Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been."

"It also became clear why the nations were expected to commence major space enterprises. Henceforth, the raw materials for industrial civilization were to be taken from Earth’s lifeless sisters, not th…"

"What was it like, he wondered, to care about something so passionately? He suspected it made her somehow more alive than he was."