Future Visions Quotes

“Technology is always double-edged, and the day stone tools were invented, axe murder became possible.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don’t believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“I am the Sovereign of Iss!” the girl declared. “And you are the daughter of Ciwril Xidyla! They had better listen to us.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention. Editing.” Most”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Peter handed me a glass of wine—my own Neon White Red,”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“An air of anticipation hung over the lab. The pied crow—whose name, according to Tasha, was Pitch, and who had been raised in captivity, bouncing from wildlife center to wildlife center before winding up living in my sister’s private aviary—gripped her perch stubbornly with her talons and averted her eyes from the screen, refusing to react to the avatar that was trying to catch her attention. She’d been ignoring the screen for over an hour, shutting out four researchers and a bored linguist who was convinced that I was in the middle of some sort of creative breakdown. “All”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“A barn owl was perched atop the refrigerator.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence. I”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Spurred on by both the science and science fiction of our time, my generation of researchers and engineers grew up to ask what if? and what’s next? We went on to pursue new disciplines like computer vision, artificial intelligence, real-time speech translation, machine learning, and quantum computing.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Once you absorb the maths, it’s all perfectly clear.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

“glanced ostentatiously at my bangle. Blood alcohol content .01%, heart rate leveling off at 72 beats per minute, time 11:42 p.m.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft