David Marusek Quotes

#1. Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

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#2. Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

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#3. Who among us can claim normalcy, Bishop?

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#4. The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

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#5. In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

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#6. Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

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#7. Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls ... The genius of the irrational ... This is the body's intelligence, not the mind's. Every living cell possess it ... [the] indomitable will to survive.

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#8. What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

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#9. Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

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#10. And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

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#11. I suppose that in a dark room, even a dim bulb feels bright.

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#12. Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

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