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“Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.”

Quote by Charles Stross

Book:Accelerando

Work

The book is a collection of interconnected short stories that delve into the future of humanity, artificial intelligence, and the cosmos. more

Author

Charles Stross is a British science fiction writer born on October 18, 1964. His works are known for their profound philosophical thinking and unique science fiction settings, covering a range of topics from artificial intelligence to political intrigue and time travel. more

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“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

“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”

Matter Events Masters

Book:Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.”

Economy Petroleum

Book:Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.”

Whole Planets Revelations Mysticism

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

“Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.”

Glory Ruins Civilized Rome Faded Barbarians

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

“As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction”

Church Catholic Meant To Be Predictions Catholic Church Depiction

Author:Dan Simmons

“Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.”

Should Writing Common Teacher Activity Authority Convinced Common Sense Subversive

Author:Dan Simmons