Quotes from David Marusek

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

I suppose that in a dark room, even a dim bulb feels bright.

The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

A family lives here; they are busy and happy and a little messy but someday that won't be so and you'll be sorry.