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“Sheckley.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM” had been painted over with “TRANSFUGA EX LEGE MEDIA.”
― Karl K. Gallagher, Torchship Trilogy

“The Singing Revolution”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“You know why writers are always the savvy and sexy characters in novels and movies? It’s because all novels and movies are written by writers.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“An architect never repudiates anything she’s loved.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“a sailor moves through life only the present moment is valid or important.  A”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“General Guerdon.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“After spending my life thinking I was an architect, I was a sailor adrift at sea.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“God is both a scientist and an artist.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“Ayn Rand was a genius.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“I’ve started writing a treatise on the role of “willing suspension of disbelief” in fiction and drama. Its working title is The Technobabble Sufficiency.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Fractal Man

“The problem with looking at so much history from such a distance is that everything gets so crowded. Things are complicated in every period — you step back too far to get a generalised picture and you lose all the important, deciding details. Zoom in too far to get the detail and you’ll get lost in complexity and never find your way out.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“All lost, because one of the galaxy’s many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“What’s silly is everybody trying to live longer,” Gladys said. “They think they’re adding years to their lives. What they don’t realize is that all those years get added on the shit end.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Not every secret is hidden because of its value. Sometimes, you just couldn’t say it because the pain of doing so was simply too much.”
― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Dawn

“Marcel Proust”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“social media was not a reality-based industry.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“The medium by which the suicide contagion spread was mass media.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Perhaps people found talking to software less intimidating than talking to an actual person; maybe it was because a computer could ask them franker questions that would be deemed too invasive or rude coming from a human.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“It seems symbolic that I can’t write my name anymore,” she told Mr. Nosy.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“grief bot”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“I’m afraid of the line,” she’d said. “What line’s that?” Pandora had asked. “The one I can’t come back from.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“I’m coding an artisanal consciousness.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“She’d calmly removed her headphones and was about to call out her guess when she noticed the red spatters on her curtain and a couple of brain snails sliding down the other side of the translucent vinyl. Crap, she thought. Gingerly pinching a corner of the curtain and sliding it aside, she stepped into the living room, where she found her dad and his ex-client. Her father was still seated opposite the body lying beached-whale-like on the floor. Roger’s own face was stricken, blood spattered, and frozen while his hands eagle-clawed the arms of his chair. “Dad?” Pandora asked. “Yes?” Roger said, not moving. “Should I call someone?” “Yes,” he said, still not moving. “Who?” she asked. “Anyone,” he replied.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“So you’re saying that having kids is what it’s all about and once you’ve had them you start waiting to die?”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“So you’re saying that death is the kick in the pants our species needs to not turn into vegetables.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Google uses click-through statistics as a way to rank search results,” George typed. “For people, memory search optimization is achieved by the emotional residue associated with the memories being searched. The strongest emotional associations cause those memories to rank highest.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“That the dying mind would take us back to the time when we felt most alive.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Peekaboo teaches a baby to imagine the continuity of reality,” George wrote. “And that’s an important step toward achieving consciousness.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill