The Naked World Quotes

“The trick to running a successful humanitarian operation is to appear to be constantly alleviating poverty without solving any of its underlying causes and ensuring that no one else does either.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“I’m not goin’ anywhere till I get my fuckin’ shoes!” Amon bellowed as he shoved against the tense, squabbling tangle that had formed in the lane, the functional machines now the locus towards which the weight of the crowd surged.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“elections were merely public dramatizations of backroom deals and competing interests.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“The crowding, the volatile architecture, the pointless effort of constant resupplying, the hunger and fighting and boredom and stigmatization, the ignorance, the self-loathing and guilt, the apathy and despair, the charity-sponsored religion that took advantage of all these feelings”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“observe with all the equanimity he could summon,”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“We’d be talking and suddenly he’d get the Elsewhere Gaze, or he’d smirk or giggle or grimace at something I couldn’t see. Other times he’d start typing out a response to someone but try to keep our conversation going with his divided attention.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“With politics almost exclusively funded by corporations, elections are dramatized proxy disputes between competing lobbies. Political positions disadvantageous to all, or at least most, industries are eliminated from public discourse by default, and only those legislations beneficial to some but not other industries are debated.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“What are we all striving for when it’s obvious that nothing we do changes anything? Aside from our instinct to survive, why do we make any effort at all? Why do so many people get up off of their floor each morning?”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“that’s what you get for trying to start a family in this world.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“Foul, but just what I need right now.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“Home. Now seemed as good a time as any to go there, whether that meant the BioPen, his old apartment in Jinbocho, his elevator in Xenocyst, his dream landscape, or somewhere else entirely.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“When an infant is designated as marketable, the algorithm immediately identifies the parents from the gene pool—with the exception of relatively rare cases in which the sire is bankliving. The precise moment the infant is accepted into the receptacle, they are both upgraded to gifters and entitled to a bonus for one year as a reward for gifting.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World

“a forecast is generated for the ideal applicants to predicted future positions and the task is then to acquire those resources in the present with the genes and epigenetic structure most likely to become such applicants given a specific rearing and education program.”
― Eli K.P. William, The Naked World