Ken MacLeod Quotes

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• The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
• Change the problem by changing your mind.
• The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
• What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
• I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
• I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
• Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,…
• Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
• The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
• The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -…

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