I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.
It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.
Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
