David Brin

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1950 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 47

   CreditThe Postmanscreenwriter

• EREric Roth1 title
• STSteve Tisch1 title
• GRGiovanni Ribisi1 title
• JHJames Newton Howard1 title
• DBDaniel von Bargen1 title
• GWGeorge Wyner1 title
• RHRyan Hurst1 title
• EGEllen Geer1 title
• JRJames Russo1 title
• RLRex Linn1 title

• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• One more piece for the Great Jigsaw puzzle. <br> I find it truly stunning how many people can shrug off stuff like this, preferring instead a tiny, cramped cosmos just 6,000 years old, scheduled to end any-time-now in a scripted stage show of unfathomable violence and cruelty. <br> An ancient and immense and ongoing cosmos is so vastly more dramatic and worthy of a majestic Creator. Our brains, capable of exploring His universe, picking up His tools and doing His work, seem destined for much greater tasks than cowering in a small groups of the elect, praying that some of our neighbors will go to perdition...

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Blatant idiocies had been tried by early men and women—foolishness that would never have been considered by species aware of the laws of nature. Desperate superstitions had bred during the savage centuries. Styles of government, intrigues, philosophies were tested with abandon. It was almost as if Orphan Earth had been a planetary laboratory, upon which a series of senseless and bizarre experiments were tried.

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “Where there is mind, there is always solution,” Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

  David Brin, CC BY-SA 4.0