“Carlyle spread her hands. ‘I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.’ She smiled. ‘It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches.” — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars? — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“She read it over, decided it was too complicated for Memo , and ran it through an app called MyTxt4Dummies.” — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“On this rock we had built our church. We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism on crass… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Comrades and friends,’ he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
