27 Quotes Tagged: cyberpunk

"So I'm heading for Truth or Consequences."

"Aren't we all," says Lorenzo, "aren't we all."

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…

Words are just bits of information, but language is the full code. It’s wired into every stage of meaning-making, from basic emotions all the way up to abstract thought. Once you can speak a language, you can feel in that language. It’s automatic. It creates empathy.

what is genuine emotion and what is business strategy. The modern condition.

You can’t scrub everything,” says Lorenzo. “Information gets what it wants, and it wants to be free.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you.

"Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God."

Emoticons as a new class of oversignifying precision grammar.

Fads swept the youth of the sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.

Lion glances back at the pigeons. Sees a flicker he didn’t notice before. Remembers that the de-extinction program was a failed effort, realizes he’s looking at a light-vert. An AR projection of an almost. The bad dreams of a society disguised as a good time.

Flirting has to be the original form of guerrilla marketing, from back before markets even existed.

the failure of language.” “It’s a creative destruction. Out of that failure comes culture. Out of culture comes desire. Out of desire come products.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.