Synners Quotes

“Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“you work for a large corporation, they’ll expect you to believe all kinds of stupid shit.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Information can neither be created nor destroyed – it’s accessible or it’s inaccessible, but it is. If you have known it, and you can find the tiniest remnant of association, then you will know it again.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“He’d thought at first that the solitude might make him strange, and then he’d asked himself just how much stranger did he think he could get, and after that he never gave it another thought.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“It bothers me that I can’t press a button and check on the rest of the world, or at least the small parts of it that I’m interested in. I’m not the only one. You haven’t been able to walk around and see it, dear, but the irritability threshold around here is lower than it used to be. We’re not in our natural habitat anymore. We’ve become denizens of the net. Homo datum.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“You mention freedom of choice,’ she said. ‘However, we all know that often freedom of choice is a fantasy.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Great people leave their marks. Everyone else is left with marks.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Every technology has its original sin.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Pretty soon it would all be happening at the speed of thought, before it could actually happen, so that nothing would ever have to happen again. You’d only think things had happened, and if anything ever did happen, you wouldn’t know the difference.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Everything changed for the machines.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Rather than spend money for further research and development, the government and the taxpayers (of which Sam was not one) had opted for stiffer penalties for vandals. As if that would put Humpty Dumpty together again.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. ‘Mount Rushmore,’ she said. ‘Little far west of home for this time of year?’ The”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

“[Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.
[Mark] What does ‘c-word’ mean?
[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don’t feel it. Not letting go even when you can’t find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners