Ian Smith

“Saint George, a social terrarium in which the men think they are living in a Mormon polygamy, while the women consider it a lesbian world with a small percentage of male lesbians”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“The so-called risk of the capitalist is merely one of the many privileges of capital”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars

“if you program a purpose into a computer program, does that constitute its will? Does it have free will, if a programmer programmed its purpose?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“Something to consider: going as fast as we are, if we flew right into the outer layers of the sun, we might emerge again from the sun before there was time for us to heat and burn up. That would create a very considerable deceleration. Indeed, as a calculation quickly shows, too much deceleration. We would perhaps survive; our humans, not. So the more complicated solution of gravitational drag must be studied. Would however have been interesting to fly right through a star and out the other side!”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora