David Zindell

"Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes."

"The secret of life is more life."

"Do you want to know the secret of life? Bardo will tell you the secret of life: its not the amount of time we have, despite what Ive just said. No its not quantity and its not even quality. Its variety."

"For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down."

"I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life."

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldnt."

"Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise."

"Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)"

"The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods."

"All living things are afraid to die." "No, youre exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."

"What is a human being, then?" ... "A seed." "A … seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

"To be what you want to be: isnt this the essence of being human?"