Rewired Quotes

“What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis" -- The Calorie Man”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“People, my god; people. Nature gave them tongues, technology gave them loudspeakers, and they all believe that because they can use both, whatever they say is important.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“If we leave the network to fall over slowly, parts of it will stay online for months. Maybe years. And what will run on it? Malware. Worms. Spam. System-processes. Zone transfers. The things we use fall apart and require constant maintenance. The things we abandon don’t get used and they last forever.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“Either way, I'd brought a pair of hands and enough general surgical experience to be useful. If you'd ever had be a saint to heal someone, medicine would have been doomed from the start.”
― Greg Egan, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology