172 Quotes by David Brin

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

Redundancy is blessed, but efficiency is divine.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.