Cyberpunk Quotes
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Cyberpunk Quotes & Sayings
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I'd been an outcast my entire life. Growing up with technophobe parents in the dawn of a Cyborg Age did that to a person.
— Anna L. Davis
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
— Neal Stephenson
I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral.
— Sam A. Patel
I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.
— Anna L. Davis
I let go of the tenuous control I had and scream into the void. Without lungs you can scream forever, and I do.
— Tade Thompson
As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.
— John Shirley
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
— Daniel H. Wilson
Riots followed hunger like thunder follows lightning.
— Gary A. Ballard
You can't hack your destiny, brute force ... you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
— Clyde DeSouza
I can't,' I say. Her mind closes like a shutter, with finality.
I wish, at that moment, that I had said something else. — Tade Thompson
Are you . . . a policeman?""No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry. — James Tiptree Jr.
With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you.
— James Tiptree Jr.
But that was then, and then is a world away from now.
— Sam A. Patel
One of the things I like about Cyber World is that it shows cyberpunk has left its heteronormative boy's club roots behind in the dust.
— Jason Heller
...Heard the rushing wind, saw through his tears: red and blue flaring light, and then he shut up and looked for it but found nothing.
— Jason Heller
My nerves still spark like ricocheting tracer bullets.
— Jason Heller
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
— Neal Stephenson
The mind has doors...even as the body does. And when you drill new holes, you tap old hungers.
— Raphael Carter
And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.
— William Gibson
That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there.
— Sam A. Patel
Destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome.
— William Gibson
My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.
— Sam A. Patel
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
— William Gibson
We are all part machine, Kaaro. Your phone is a polymer under the skin of your hand. You have a locator chip in your head.
— Tade Thompson
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. — Bruce Sterling
Can you look at this brilliant wound?
— Keishi Ando
You could love someone so strongly, for so long, and still forget - until the memories returned.
— Jason Heller
I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
I need to fight for the preservation of the Earth type planets and its coexistence with worlds after death.-Banyan
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
A washing machine repairman dying of laryngeal cancer had only one recurring thought: There is no excuse for making an angel cry.
— Tade Thompson
What's a quantum extrapolator?' I ask.'You are, — Tade Thompson
You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your arms scared to death?-Enyo
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
I am a more modern female vampire since I came just when our world was disappearing due to the intromission of this future.-Enyo
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you.
— William Gibson
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
— Paul Di Filippo
Today we no longer fear technology. It's no longer a question of assimilation. What remains to be seen is what we are about to become.
— Jason Heller
Maybe we should all find one," I say. Or maybe, just for once, I should wait for someone to find me first.
— Jason Heller
There are no limits, only plateaus.
— Sam A. Patel
I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
I think they are a better race than humans ever were.
— Angelo Tsanatelis
It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.
— William Gibson
It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty.
— Tade Thompson
like all of her, wrong sex, wrong class, wrong attitude...
— Melissa Scott
Her slender hand on the small of his back, night after night - this had saved his life.
— Jason Heller
Well, what brand of water do you drink?""Just what was in the faucet, sir," says Delphi humbly. "I--I did try to boil it--"
"Good God. — James Tiptree Jr.
Oyin Da's mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.
— Tade Thompson
I go outside, bundled against the wind from the east. I wander the streets of my past, waiting for one more dawn.
— Jason Heller
The arm that carries the data. That's your wing.
— Sam A. Patel
The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth
— Sam A. Patel
Maybe humankind was meant to be sick from time to time. Maybe there is something to be learned from illness.
— Tade Thompson
...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep.
— Tade Thompson
Those who wake...do not regret the dream.
— Raphael Carter