Quotes by Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

“Anyway… I find what you write interesting.” “That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”

Interesting

People

Writing

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

Life Is

Stars

Struggle

Change the problem by changing your mind.

Changing Your Mind

Mind

Problem

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

Falling In Love

Loved Ones

Personality

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Philosopher

Simple

Wings

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, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

Children

Country

Kings

I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

Believe

Father

Lying

I enjoyed Old Man’s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in already.

Character

Men

War

I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Long

Optimistic

Thinking

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

Long

Opaque

Two

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Astronomy

Becoming

Believe

Changing Your Mind

Character

Children

Country

Engineering

Falling In Love

Father

Fiction

Ideas

Impossible

Interesting

Justice

Kings

Leaving

Life Is

Long

Loved Ones

Lying

Men

Mind

Opaque

Optimistic

People

Personality

Philosopher

Problem

Real

Responsibility

Secret

Simple

Socialism

Southern

Stars

Strange

Struggle

Superstitious

Think Big

Thinking

Two

War

Way

What If

Wings

World

Writing

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Quotes by Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

“Anyway… I find what you write interesting.” “That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”

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

Change the problem by changing your mind.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

I enjoyed Old Man’s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in already.

I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

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