Daniel Suarez Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me?

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.