Greg Bear Quotes

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Sharing is the essence of social media.

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

The more people talk directly to each other, the better. Dialogue is the way of solving issues.

In times of social turmoil, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression. We want the progress that comes from free expression, but not the tension.

I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.