Top 74 Daniel Suarez Quotes
#1. Every day was filled with surprises. What a change from the network affiliate. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.
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#2. Nodded. I see that you're a first-level Fighter. Which makes it all the more
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#3. Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
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#4. If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
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#5. Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
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#6. You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.
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#7. I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
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#8. We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.
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#9. to understand a people, you need to wade into their culture. It's culture that tells their tale. And music is culture.
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#10. As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.
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#11. Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?
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#12. In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat - and some smartass had sold them guns.
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#13. When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
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#14. All right. I owe you a character. Should we buy another one?" Ross chuckled. "Now you're getting the hang of it." He sighed. "No, let's see if we can get out of town alive.
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#15. The seat of consciousness - what's known as 'sensorium' - exists partly as an expression of particle entanglement in higher physical dimensions. The human brain is merely a conduit.
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#16. This had all the earmarks of an SQL-injection attack, and he had a favorite one. In the logon and password boxes he entered: 'or 1=1--
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#17. Anything before you're thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world's going to hell.
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#18. I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
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#20. How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world.
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#22. She glanced back at the young mother walking with her husband. The woman was chunky. Genetically inferior. But at that moment Alexa wanted to he her. Life was about experiences. She'd learned that more and more over the decades.
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#23. They sell the fact that you're susceptible to technical animism.
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#24. A thing can't exist in people's minds until it has a name. But with a name, it can exist in people's minds without existing at all. You should always come up with a name before you set out to create anything.
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#25. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.
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#26. At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.
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#27. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true. But, no job is perfect.
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#28. Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system ... Lacking a central nervous system - much less a brain - the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.
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#29. When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy.
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#30. So what? So what if everyone cares? What does that do for us? The situation we're in isn't going to be solved by angry posts and best fucking wishes. Public outrage has never stopped these bastards.
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#31. My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.
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#32. Mankind was on the moon in the 1960s, Jon. That was half a century ago. Nuclear power. The transistor. The laser. All existed even back then. Do you really think the pinnacle of innovation since that time is Facebook?
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#33. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.
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#34. If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
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#35. It all seems so clear now. Corporate intrusion into public institutions. Corporate domination of culture and media. It happened in plain view, with us cheering on their success as if it reflected well on us. As if it was us.
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#36. And all at once he noticed something about the people around him. It was as though they knew, somewhere deep down, that the future was overdue.
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#37. If it's truth you're after, there are wonders ahead ...
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#38. He was just an idea - a collection of responsibilities with a mailing address.
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#39. But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.
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#40. When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.
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#41. The situation was terrible, of course. But the universe could still be so beautiful.
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#42. How do you like your drones now, asshole?" Nearby,
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#43. For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?
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#44. I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.
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#45. I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
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#46. We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.
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#47. Look, let's not turn this into a blamestorming session. There'll be plenty of time for that if we fail.
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#48. I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
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#49. Great. So if a dragon and a fairy show up at the castle, what the hell am I supposed to do with that information? Put out a warrant for their arrest?" "No,
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#50. Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
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#51. When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
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#52. We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
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#53. Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.
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#54. He kept his eyes upon her as the natural laws is the universe brought them closer together with each revolution.
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#55. They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we're making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land.
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#56. A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.
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#57. A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.
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#58. He didn't care. She was a sexual hand grenade with the pin pulled out, but he could never manage to resist her. Whatever this said about him didn't matter.
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#59. Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.
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#60. I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
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#61. Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it - and were often tainted by it.
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#62. If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.
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#63. Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.
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#64. I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
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#65. It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.
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#66. What I caution against is any unaccountable concentration of power. And I don't care whether that's the government, a corporation, the church, a really bad-ass girl scouts troop, whatever it is.
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#67. Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
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#68. Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.
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#69. I've always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can.
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#70. There's no better time to celebrate friendship than when things are at their worst.
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#71. Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.
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#72. How can you expect to handle the future if you can't even handle the present?
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#73. I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.
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#74. Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me?
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