Ken MacLeod Quotes

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Change the problem by changing your mind.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.