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War Bodies
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‘This is morally wrong,’ said Piper. ‘Ah, morality.’ ‘They are human and should be able to choose their course.’ ‘I can debate the philosophy of that, since in reality no one chooses their course, but let’s instead go to plain reality.
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“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
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“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”
― Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
― Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
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“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”
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