Learning the World Quotes

“We’re here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“laughterburn,”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“Knowledge within the project was as compartmentalised as an insect’s body.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“jinked”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“just to show he can. He just likes being contrary, and likes the attention.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“sensationalism of the vulgar.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“absolutely rocking fucks,”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“We’re here now, we have the means to stop the suffering, and therefore the duty to act.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about whether your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“Brides and babies and strong dark men and intellectual and sensual women and the prospect of wide-open spaces to populate with humanity had always made her weak at the knees.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World

“Fascinating,’ said Darvin. ‘The mystery of life. The miracle of reproduction. I don’t know why I didn’t learn all this in school.’ ‘I did not,’ said Orro. ‘I read it in an imaginative but broadly accurate illustrated treatise inscribed, if memory serves, on the wall of a municipal pissery.”
― Ken MacLeod, Learning the World