472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.