“But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?" "No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough." "Why not?" "Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would… — 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
