WIST Quotations

Hayden, Teresa Nielsen -- “On Time” (1995)

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:09:35 +0000

My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We’re hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely interesting ancient times. I like this idea. It encourages us to be earnest and ingenious and brave, as befits ancestral peoples; but keeps us from deciding that because we don’t know all the answers, they must be unknowable and thus unprofitable to pursue.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (b. 1956) American editor, writer, essayist
“On Time” (1995)
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Hayden, Teresa Nielsen -- “On Time” (1995)

Dave — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:53:54 +0000

I wouldn’t want to live in Tomorrowland, where the social patterns and infrastructure are all so spiff and modern and rational and well-designed that any remaining problems must needs be insoluble, and so a cause for despair.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (b. 1956) American editor, writer, essayist
“On Time” (1995)
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Hayden, Teresa Nielsen -- Making Light, “Commonplaces”

Dave — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:04:55 +0000

Great writing is the world’s cheapest special effect.