Daniel Suarez Quotes

They sell the fact that you’re susceptible to technical animism.

You’re like a retarded Sir Lancelot.

Yes, space will challenge us, have no doubt, but this is the very challenge humanity needs to cure us of our propensity for bullshit — because space is where bullshit goes to die. Out there only facts and competence keep you alive. Superstition, uneducated guesses, and comforting lies are what must go extinct. Not us.

"daemon (dēm n) — A computer program that runs continuously in the background and performs specified operations at predefined times or in response to certain events. Condensed from "Disk and Execution MONitor

At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

I’ve always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can.

Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.

As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.

>> is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe?
<< It's completely full if you include the air

no society with a wide power imbalance remains free for very long.

"Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female — making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. "Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat

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

All right. I owe you a character. Should we buy another one?” Ross chuckled. “Now you’re getting the hang of it.” He sighed. “No, let’s see if we can get out of town alive.

Their transmitters are nanotech — diamond lattice structures they call a ‘q-link’ — a tiny mass that they vibrate at high frequency to send gravitational waves through higher-dimensional space.