Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
stupid believe wings
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
wise stars fall
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
stars book writing
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
stars fall believe
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.
heaven hell literal
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
destiny two bravery
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
war technology race
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.
infinite navel figures
Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.
stars personality machines
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program
motivational simplicity research
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
thinking people stupidity
Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
inspiration creativity science
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
yield statistics imperfect
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
exploration reason solar-system
If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.