Aliens Quote by Ken MacLeod

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

“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

“Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.”

— Ken MacLeod

Change the problem by changing your mind.

— Ken MacLeod

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

— Ken MacLeod

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

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

— Ken MacLeod

“She read it over, decided it was too complicated for Memo , and ran it through an app called MyTxt4Dummies.”

— Ken MacLeod

“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

“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

“Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?”

— Ken MacLeod

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

— Ken MacLeod