Newton's Wake Quotes

“The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small.” Everybody here has got here by intense competition, moderated by character assassination.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“Carlyle spread her hands. ‘I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.’ She smiled. ‘It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“Black Sickle harvesting.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“There was something ineradicably depressing about a place that smelled of the middle of the night in the middle of the day.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“Tourism without tact, shopping without respect or reciprocity, slapping down their AO dollars as though doing the place a favour and departing with armfuls of stuff.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“post mortem triste”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“a sadness in living beyond extinction,”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“We will live in big habitat spinning in the sun, natural environment for self-reliant conscious primate.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“Let’s give our people what they want, which means fast food, cheap television, cars, and Levi jeans.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“squick”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake

“Let us leave philosophy to the physicists,’ said Chair.”
― Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake