The Difference Engine Quotes

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.”
― William Gibson

“[R]idicule is the radical's best weapon. The powers that be can stand anything but being laughed at.”
― Bruce Sterling, Distraction