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I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Posthumanism offers fluidity and freedom, and a metaphysic daring enough to think a whole world into life.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Everybody has a different Internet.

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier.

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

You see, I'm from your government, and I'm here to help you.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.

Do you remember, Abelard ... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God."
"I remember."
"I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

We need common sense and political stability and sensible, workable policies. That's what government is for.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind.

The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.'
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress!

He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up.

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.

Every Concatenate world faced biological problems as the habitat aged.

Mankind had always been surrounded by the miraculous. Nothing much had ever come of it.

You give a guy a license to
steal, you've got to expect him to use it.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

My IQ? No. I can't read," she said proudly. "But I'm Rep One, the majority whip in the House. And I'm married to Senator One.

I knew suddenly that I could not endure another week in Venice, not another day of their gentle melancholy, not another hour of fashionable despair.

Google created Google+ as its effort to steal Facebook's oxygen, but it turns out that social networks aren't commodities.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.