Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
William GibsonTags: internet cyberpunk cyberspace
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
Neal StephensonTags: cyberpunk
The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
Quellcrist Falconer
Things I Should Have Learned by Now, Volume II
Tags: cyberpunk quellcrist-falconer takeshi-kovacs
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.
Bruce SterlingTags: future science-fiction criticism cyberpunk
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
Neal StephensonTags: cyberpunk
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.
Jess C. ScottTags: life money truth insightful society technology self-discovery consumerism materialism humankind cyberpunk modernity urban-fantasy elven-charm
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
Jess C. ScottTags: reality society technology reflection meaning materialism cyberpunk body-image plastic-surgery
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.
Neal StephensonTags: science-fiction cyberpunk sf
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Jess C. ScottTags: life truth friendship friends insightful love family humanity society meaning-of-life human-nature reflection reflective social-commentary meaning life-lessons insight humans young-adult humankind cyberpunk elves social-science young-adult-literature human-behavior elven social-issues urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels inside-ourselves urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series nq-mobile-omar-khan omar-khan-nq-mobile
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.
Rudy RuckerTags: humor science-fiction cyberpunk
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