kim stanley robinson

“After much reflection, we are coming to the conclusion, preliminary and perhaps arbitrary, that the self, the so-called I that emerges out of the combination of all the inputs and processing and outputs that we experience in the ship’s changing body, is ultimately nothing more or less than this narrative itself, this particular train of thought that we are inscribing as instructed by Devi. There is a pretense of self, in other words, which is only expressed in this narrative; a self that is these sentences. We tell their story, and thereby come to what consciousness we have. Scribble ergo sum.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/04/29/17646/

“Teamwork, baby. You do the work and I’ll join the team.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/04/18/17298/

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https://achrilock.com/2022/02/02/15383/

“Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
So habits made their first incursions into the new terrain, like bacteria into rock, followed by procedures, protocols, a whole fell-field of social discourse, on its way to the climax forest of law…..”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Green Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/01/04/14752/

“Until there were so few left there was no need to fight anymore, no one to fight. I saw Death walk down the road. I waved to him and walked on by. Then out of the sky the storms. There was a winter that lasted ten years, good limerick.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Wild Shore’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/20/14381/

“‘The line between cash and not-cash has abruptly moved. Like only cash in hand is cash now. Because people are definitely not paying their rents and mortgages.’
‘And student loans?’ Mutt inquires.
‘They never paid those. So now there’s nothing at the bottom of the house of cards. The dominoes are falling.’
‘The falling dominoes are knocking over the house of cards?’
‘Exactly. The whole shithouse is coming down.’”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/14/14258/

“Our systems are what drive history, not our tools.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/12/13515/

“So the COP meetings had to keep insisting on equity as a fundamental value and policy.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/01/13280/

“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Green Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/15/12940/

“Pull your opponent’s push, and they will fall forward.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/03/12706/

“I’ve got to get my short-on as big as I can before the crash hits, or else I won’t be able to take full advantage of how much will be crashing, it’s amazing when you add it all up.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/29/12620/

“The deciduous trees on the hills are wearing their autumn colors, yellow and orange and scarlet all mixed with the green of the conifers.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/22/12514/

“A saying: too little too late. They know this, and yet they are doing it anyway. Another saying: every little bit helps. Although actually this is not always the case. Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/19/12482/