87 Quotes by Spider Robinson

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

honesty is hard work.

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.