Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased
-- Spider Robinson
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
I wanted to understand.
-- Spider Robinson
Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure
-- Spider Robinson
Call it... joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It's nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it's got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it.
-- Spider Robinson
"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
-- Spider Robinson
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