Infinity's Shore Quotes

“Yet egotism can also be useful to ambitious creatures, driving their single-minded pursuit of success. Madness seems essential in order to be “great.”
― David Brin, Infinity's Shore

“All sooners know life is something you just borrow for a while. Each person must choose how to spend it.”
― David Brin, Infinity's Shore

“Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.”
― David Brin, Infinity's Shore

“humans wrestled endlessly with their own overpowering egos. Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment. Others subsumed personal ambition in favor of a greater whole—family, religion, or a leader. Later they passed through a phase in which individualism was extolled as the highest virtue, teaching their young to inflate the ego beyond all natural limits or restraint.”
― David Brin, Infinity's Shore