Daniel Suarez Quotes

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• I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
• Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male…
• But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful…
• Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
• Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
• Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these…
• Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
• In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold…
• When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
• At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources…
• In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All…
• Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment,…
• I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside…
• I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.
• We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do…
• I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
• Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in…
• If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.

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