Cyberpunk Quotes
Collection of top 58 famous quotes about Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Cyberpunk quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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.
"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
"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 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.
"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