Ken MacLeod

“All utopias are dystopias. The difference is a matter of ideology.”

“The basis of all politics is the skilled use of envy.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.”

“History is the trade secret of science fiction.”

“The free market is a chaotic, decentralised system of coordination in which the immediate agents are congenitally myopic.”

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”

“The future is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

“Human history is aGaian heap of bloody laundry.”

“Anarchism is the radical idea that other people are not your property.”

“What is a god but a consciousness that is not you?”

“Revolution is the punctuation of evolution.”

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”