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Daniel Suarez is an American science fiction author born on December 21, 1964. His works often blend elements of technology, business, and futurism, and are highly appreciated by readers.

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Wealth Economy

Book:Freedom™

Source: Freedom™

“Sorry. Just paralyzed by the indescribable beauty of the cosmos. We'll get to work.”

Universe Space Cosmos Space Exploration Space Travel Outer Space

Book:Delta-v

Source: Delta-v

“Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.”

Simple Perfect Brain Enemy Nervous Compromise Target Host Uniforms Lacking Nervous System Robust Parasites Central Nervous System Replication

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?”

People Ifs Heart Violation Patents

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.”

Ifs Needs House Sides Reputation Brands Kicks Valleys Geek Influential Your Side Silicon Silicon Valley Demonstrating Bloggers Techie Grapevine

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Ideas Different Self Would Be Individual Wish Civilization Solutions Areas Cells Robust Mean People My Wish Self Reliant

Author:Daniel Suarez

“We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.”

Needs Book Species Population Inevitable Crash Leafs Parasites

Author:Daniel Suarez

“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 for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.”

Age Wanted Next Literature Degrees Novelists Realistic Great American English Literature

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.”

Years Technology Analysts

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“I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.”

Pieces Weather Software

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.”

Thinking Country Class Technology Relate

Author:Daniel Suarez

“My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.”

People World Littles Different Enough Fiction Familiar Horizon Freak

Author:Daniel Suarez

“Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.”

Next Movement Who You Are Phones Data Location Mobile Providers Mobile Phones Service Providers

Author:Daniel Suarez

“A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.”

Persons Done Would Be Kids Opportunity Decision Economic Determine Accepted Get Up Reasonable Decision Making Every Second

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.”

Giving I Can Sometimes Use Pages Phones Mobile Batteries Mobile Phones Facebook Page

Author:Daniel Suarez

“A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.”

People Want Helping Happens Powerful Democracy Groups Scary Data Efficiency Small Groups Scary Things Really Scary

Author:Daniel Suarez

“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 so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.”

Men Years Two Century Military Style Development Thousand Research Eight Oil Requirements Casual Nineteenth Century Sixteen Barrels Patents Lawsuit Research And Development Trademarks Infringement

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“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, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Use Might Millions Share Office Hundred Communism Productive Apartment Furniture Might Have Been Pizza Sneakers Roommate

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.”

People Ability Democracy Too Much Suspects

Author:Daniel Suarez

“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 or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.”

Mean Different Lasts Moving Sex Generations Produce Female Threat Males Defeat Compromise Evolve Target Genes Living Things Variation Presenting Offspring Reproduction Mixing Parasites Intruders

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“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 parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.”

Ifs World Helping Simple Answers Successful Taken Alive Havens Parasites

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.”

Way Play Reality Faces Games Difficult Species Preparing Indulge Indulge In Mammals

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.”

Political Names Wealth Simple Corporations Political Power

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.”

World Hell Five Exciting Proof Thirty

Author:Daniel Suarez

“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 BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?”

People Two America Becoming Hundred Dollars Average Folks Buying Puzzles Irresponsible Copper Bmw

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.”

Ideas Facts Reality Fiction Weight Advertising Budgets Marketplace Fact And Fiction

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“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 them guns.”

People Games Numbers Gun Musical Seats Chairs Large Numbers Smartass

Book:Kill Decision

Source: Kill Decision

“When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.”

Humans Civilization Survival Strategy Human History

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“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 and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.”

Economy Issues Source Population Debt Passing Passings Rising Fuel Transition Status Quo Fossils Passing Away Fossil Fuel Civil Society Global Economy

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

About the Author

Born: December 21, 1964
Known for: Author
Quotes: 29

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