Spider Robinson: Quotes about thinking

“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Spider Robinson

God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: "It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? That lemming drive you're talking about is there — but there's another kind of drive, another kind of force that's working against it. Or else there wouldn't still be any people and there wouldn't be the words to have this conversation and—" She paused, looked down at herself. "And I wouldn't be here to say them."

Thinking

“Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me… only he's an imbecile.”

Spider Robinson

Source: Off the Wall at Callahan's

Thinking

“Over and over again I find in my short stories that I am, by policy, optimistic. Looking back on it and thinking it over after 25 years, I'm real proud of that. If that's a defect, it's a defect I'm sinfully proud of and I hope I can manage to maintain that excessively optimistic attitude for another 25 years.”

Spider Robinson

https://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/spiderrobinson3.html
Interviews

Hope , Thinking

“I had just seen the two most horrible things. The first was the smile. They say that when the bomb went off at Hiroshima, some people's shadows were baked onto walls by it. I think that smile got baked on the surface of my brain in much the same way. I don't want to talk about that smile.”

Spider Robinson

God Is An Iron (1977)