Stanley Robinson
Stanley Robinson
Stanley Robinsonis an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Leones de Quilpué of the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile. He primarily plays the small forward position but occasionally assumes the role of a power forward as well...
invented people
Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.
amongst convince digging fiction justifies people rarely rocks science scientists sort tedious trying
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
including larger people
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
people
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
mistake people important
You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.
lying people wanted
But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.
beauty beautiful people
How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?
great
No comment. It was fun. It was a great experience.
cold forward looking love playing
I love cold weather. I like their way of playing basketball. I am looking forward to getting up there and playing.
fall
I want something to fall back on, ... just in case.
coach giving good hints impact promise starting telling work
Coach Calhoun told me that he can't promise me a starting position, ... but if I come in and work hard, good things will happen. He was just telling me that he's starting freshmen, giving me hints that I could come in and be an impact player.
behind career move ready
That's all behind me. I am ready to move on. This makes the end of my career more special.
approach left terrible
Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.
act scientists
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.