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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
— William Ford Gibson

56 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Ford Gibson

90 people liked it

"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen."
— J.G. Ballard

12 people liked it

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! "
— J.G. Ballard

9 people liked it

"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)

tags: humor
115 people liked it

"Show some fucking adaptability!"
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

19 people liked it

"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead."
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

tags: fiction, historical, humor, internet, neal, stephenson, wwii
18 people liked it

"Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window."
— Neal Stephenson

16 people liked it

"'The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.'"
— Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)

3 people liked it

"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins."
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)

4 people liked it

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

tags: science, technology
157 people liked it

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
— Douglas Adams

tags: computer, science, technology
115 people liked it

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: technology
14 people liked it

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it."
— Rollo May (The Cry for Myth)

tags: technology
9 people liked it

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: technology
11 people liked it

"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. "
— John Brunner (Stand on Zanzibar)

tags: humour, sociology, technology
9 people liked it

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

tags: inspirational, science, technology
4 people liked it

"Our technology forces us to live mythically"
— Marshall McLuhan

tags: technology
4 people liked it

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster."
— Carl Sagan

tags: knowledge, science, technology
3 people liked it

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
— Albert Einstein

tags: cybernetics, science
94 people liked it

"The map is not the territory."
— Alfred Korzybski

tags: cybernetics, metaphysics, philosophy
18 people liked it

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
495 people liked it

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says 'shut the fuck up!'"
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: fuck, funny, humour, libraries, neighborhoods, profanity
396 people liked it

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: churchill, funny, true, winston
477 people liked it

"Never give up. Never, never, never give up."
— Winston Churchill

tags: churchill, determination, motivation
2 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,510 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,088 people liked it

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
818 people liked it

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
767 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
885 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
484 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,148 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
574 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
198 people liked it

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: intellectualism
61 people liked it

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: perception
24 people liked it

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: traveling
25 people liked it

"There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

tags: heaven
19 people liked it

"I am I, and I wish I weren't."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

19 people liked it

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