Eric S > Eric's Quotes

“doesn’t require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

“It is fucking crazy to hold on to one moment and say that’s the moment that was pure and sacred, and it can only be like that, and I’ll kill you if you try to change anything.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

“Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of the Earth. Not a genius.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

“But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since the floods they had learned better, hadn’t they?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

“He had managed to make me feel both stupid and insecure, when in actual fact I was one of the smartest.”
― Jonas Karlsson, The Room

“I’d spent a blissful week doing nothing but science. No meetings. No distractions. Just experimentation and engineering. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to get immersed in a task.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Miki said, “That’s not good.” See, that? That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy