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“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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Ken MacLeod, born on August 2, 1954, is a renowned science fiction writer known for his profound philosophical insights and complex future world settings. His works explore themes such as artificial intelligence, politics, and social change. more

“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”

Believe Stills Lasts Dies Wish Waiting Born Existence Gone Forever Truth Is Atheist Cosmos Shells Harsh Destined Coming Back Comforting Back When Dice Shotguns Uncaring

Author:Charles Stross

“Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.”

Humans Use Language Smart Tools Intelligent Leaving Average Users Selection Carrier Memes

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”

Certain Gone Rings Colony

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.”

Religious Depends Apes Hallucinations Religious Experience

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.”

Humans Self Awareness Emotional Models Self Awareness Brilliant

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.”

Lawyer Diplomacy

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?”

Ifs Used Religious Levels Issues College Treated Copies Pigs Considering Cairo Nanotechnology

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.”

World Real Facts Reality Order Lines Existence Brain Moral Draws Narrative Theme Plot Real World

Author:Charles Stross

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

Truth Poet Bullets Snipers

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.”

Lying Language Memories Poet Expression Perception Infinite Combination Remembered Sensitivity Finite

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

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