My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. – David Brin
It is said that power corrupts, but actually its more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. – David Brin
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, Ill bet youll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science. – David Brin
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. Ive had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and Im not happy to be right in all of those cases. – David Brin
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car in the window. Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window – its about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners. – Tom Kristensen