"This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)
"Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It’s the desire for greatness." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)
"All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)
"Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)
"Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause." (Orson Scott Card, "The Call Of Earth", 1992)
"Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey." (Orson Scott Card, "How Software Companies Die", Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, 1995)
"Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. But you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You won." (Orson Scott Card, "How Software Companies Die", Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, 1995)
"The environment that nuture's creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa." (Orson Scott Card, "How Software Companies Die", Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, 1995)
"Here is the truth. What human life is, what it’s for, what we do, is create communities." (Orson Scott Card, "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", 1996)
"History has no laws, and all patterns that we find there are useful illusions." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)
"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)
"He had long since learned that when something unusual was going on, he would often find out more information faster by waiting than by asking." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Human evolution is driven by community needs […]. How is that possible, since genetic information is passed only by and to individuals?" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Most human communities demand anti-survival behavior from large numbers of their members." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"'My preliminary assessment shows that when a civil society is mature and successful, the citizens become complacent and to satisfy various needs they reinvent tribes that eventually collapse the society from the inside.' 'So both failure and success lead to failure.' 'The only question is whether it’s inevitable.'" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"People reach their peak ability as military commanders much earlier than we thought. Most of them in their late teens. The same age when poets do their most passionate and revolutionary work. And mathematicians. They peak, and then it falls off. They coast on what they learned back when they were still young enough to learn." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"That would be true […] and indeed is true in the main, except that there are only a few types of human communities that actually survive long enough to improve the chances of individual survival." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"The real training ground for leadership is in the game." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"There are community traits that promote survival of the individual, and individual traits that promote the survival of the community." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"We make each other think better […]. Together, we’re smarter." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Patience, absolute self-control, learning the capabilities of those under you so you can make up for their deficits through training." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)
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