Startide Rising Quotes

“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“Blatant idiocies had been tried by early men and women--foolishness that would never have been considered by species aware of the laws of nature. Desperate superstitions had bred during the savage centuries. Styles of government, intrigues, philosophies were tested with abandon. It was almost as if Orphan Earth had been a planetary laboratory, upon which a series of senseless and bizarre experiments were tried. Illogical and shameful as they seemed in retrospect, those experiences enriched modern Man. Few races had made so many mistakes in so short a time, or tried so many tentative solutions to hopeless problems.”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“Those who live All vibrate, * All, * And aid the world’s Singing”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“*Of what else
Are heroes made
*Than men and women
Who, like us,
Try--”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“Tormentas de estrellas
Sobre el fragor de las olas...
¿Nos mojaremos, amor?”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“The Tandu were daring, but they did not add to their crimes the gaucherie of originality.”
― David Brin, Startide Rising

“Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.” “Why, as men do aland—the great ones eat up the little ones.” —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE King Richard the Second”
― David Brin, Startide Rising