Dissidence Quotes

“software development was insecurities all the way down. Even”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“The defining element of hell was eternal conscious suffering. Here”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“Everyone’s an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“it is possible that we are the only persons,> said another robot.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“There was no need to call the meeting to order. Robots are orderly by default.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“the only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence

“None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They”
― Ken MacLeod, Dissidence