I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
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ROBERT J. SHILLER Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things o...
ROBERT J. SHILLER People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.'...
ROBERT J. SHILLER I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book a...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligibl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino ...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes...
ROBERT J. SHILLER When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
ROBERT J. FLAHERTY Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some peo...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, t...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember...
ROBERT J. SHILLER The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake an...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
ROBERT J. SAWYER To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. K...
ROBERT J. FUREY You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
ROBERT J. SAWYER How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Tolerate, change, or be grateful.
J. ROBERT MOSKIN In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Exp...
ROBERT J. FISHER By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that l...
ROBERT J. SHILLER My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, y...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provide...
ROBERT J. SHILLER You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The power of the understatement is enormous.
ROBERT J. RINGER Always let people be surprised that you gave them more than you promised, faster than you promised, ...
ROBERT J. RINGER What gives life itself such a high value is death.
ROBERT J. RINGER When it comes to negotiating diplomacy a pair of deuces beats hostility and four aces every time.
ROBERT J. RINGER Better to have someone unhappy about your refusal to commit than angry with your failure to execute.
ROBERT J. RINGER The hardest way to impress people is to try to impress people.
ROBERT J. RINGER To the degree you overexpose yourself, you become an inflated commodity, which in turn causes a deva...
ROBERT J. RINGER It's all about what you do every day, be remarkable!
ROBERT J BANACH I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the ...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition t...
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