Anthony Dean > Quotes

“They wanted some technology, but not much innovation. They wanted a consumer culture, but without much room for individual tastes. They wanted people happy enough to be productive, but not comfortable enough to become ambitious.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Because you beat the crap out of the old Primero!” Brian said gleefully. “I did do pretty well that night,” I said. “So you see, life always changes, but the changes usually come in furious little bursts that can be far apart.”
― Anthony Dean, The Valkyrie-200

“What football team played in Dallas?” “The Cowboys, obviously.” “How many Super Bowls had they won at the time of the Kinetic War?” “Twenty-two.”
― Anthony Dean, Beyond the Lemon Tree Moon

“Like the dinosaurs. Those guys were idiots. I mean come on, you can’t develop spaceflight and advanced weaponry in a hundred and eighty million years? It should have been a lay up for them to blast that asteroid out of the sky, but they were too busy eating and sleeping and loafing at the top of the food chain to bother.”
― Anthony Dean, A Frozen Equilibrium

“All problems seem large when you first encounter them,”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Alexis has a theory that almost everyone’s life is filled with long static periods that are broken up by a handful of major shifts, and I think she’s right. It absolutely matches up with my experiences.”
― Anthony Dean, The Override System

“It is helpful if close confidants to whom one is not related have had at least approximately the same amount of life experience.”
― Anthony Dean, Ascending the Hourglass

“Dean A. Bredeson”
― Anthony Dean, The Eight Colors of the Moonbow

“much.”
― Anthony Dean, A Frozen Equilibrium

“The old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Hey, Al, how much of a person’s budget goes to the EXTs, the life extension treatments?” “The median is approximately 55%.” More than half! I thought. They’re paying more than half of their earnings in taxes.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Dyson sphere.”
― Anthony Dean, The Fields of Glass Next Door

“Grandfather John shrugged. “I hated that guy, but I actually sympathize with him a little bit there. When you get old, you get sick of thinking up a new password for everything.”
― Anthony Dean, The Override System

“Icharus.”
― Anthony Dean, The Fields of Glass Next Door

“Huh. So you’re saying that even strong arm Presidents don’t like to tangle with trust attorneys.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“a person is reading, he is only taking in 2% as much data as someone who is listening. Text contains hardly any data at all. You can read for 2500 hours and use the same amount of your mind’s processing power as you would use watching vids for a single hour. Vids blast information at your senses through”
― Anthony Dean, Ascending the Hourglass

“You have to keep it simple. You have to limit its powers. You have to put those powers in different places - no kings, no single groups that can do everything. You have to have elections so that people can toss officials who are doing a lousy job out on their ears. You have to make sure that everyone can vote in the elections. You have to make sure that no one can vote twice in the elections. That’s about it. If you actually do those things, you can’t go wrong.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Maybe I’d enjoy wagering against another shark.” Banner looked over at me and laughed. “That’s between the two of you, then. Keep me out of it.”
― Anthony Dean, The Valkyrie-200

“Do you think this cat is actively trying to murder me or what?” Pete said, “I don’t think it is trying to murder you, but I don’t think it is trying not to murder you, either.” “Mmm. So it’s just a cat.”
― Anthony Dean, The Eight Colors of the Moonbow

“When a person is listening, to music or a radio or whatever, she is receiving only 2% as much data as she is when watching vids. It’s true - look at the size of any files you download from the nets. And then, if a person is reading, he is only taking in 2% as much data as someone who is listening. Text contains hardly any data at all. You can read for 2500 hours and use the same amount of your mind’s processing power as you would use watching vids for a single hour.”
― Anthony Dean, Ascending the Hourglass

“They always wanted to know what I thought the important characteristics of a new government should be. My point of view was always the same, and I highlighted the same few points dozens of times in front of dozens of groups. “You have to keep it simple. You have to limit its powers. You have to put those powers in different places - no kings, no single groups that can do everything. You have to have elections so that people can toss officials who are doing a lousy job out on their ears. You have to make sure that everyone can vote in the elections. You have to make sure that no one can vote twice in the elections. That’s about it. If you actually do those things, you can’t go wrong.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“turned out to be one of the last truly quiet and peaceful respites I would have for some time, but for half an hour, I was fully content and happy. And an occasional half hour like that is all one really needs to keep going, I have found.”
― Anthony Dean, The Valkyrie-200

“Can you fall in love in 100,000 words? If they are the right 100,000 words, it turns out that you absolutely can.”
― Anthony Dean, Navigating Yesterday

“Annabelle and my old life, of course. But in the end, I spent those years being often melancholy but not uncomfortable. I was often bored, but I had pleasant enough surroundings. I sometimes felt trapped, but I was in no danger. I was in purgatory, and not in hell.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“You are worried that I will not stop worrying and that I will thereby make an unfavorable impression. And this worries me.”
― Anthony Dean, A Frozen Equilibrium

“My projections show that this is the action with the highest expected short term yield.” “No.” “If you would just film yourself shaving your feet, or rubbing some kind of oil slowly…”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“Time is useful for marking intervals between changes. But in a universe in which nothing changes, time as a concept ceases to have any meaning.”
― Anthony Dean, The Eight Colors of the Moonbow

“And so the nineteen married couples and the eleven single astronauts made a pact and formed the Thirty Families. They agreed on the following simple but critical points: 1. They would never pass their ability to authorize the creation of new life extension treatments (or EXTs, as they called them) to anyone except a single heir, usually their oldest child, upon their deaths. 2. They would not allow the creation of any new AIs that were capable of accepting such authorization from anyone not the head of one of the Thirty Families. 3. They would create a new digital currency and would accept only it and nothing else from buyers wishing to purchase EXTs. 4. They would enforce their monopoly through the sanction of withholding EXTs.”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“And here’s the thing about their currency, the Universal Credit: the Thirty Families can turn it on, and they can turn it off”
― Anthony Dean, The Voided Man

“A voice in the distance cried out, “Banner!” I saw a girl near the collection of tents waving a hat over her head. “That’s my sister Annie,” I said. “She’s a great kid. Don’t bet with her, though - she’s a shark.”
― Anthony Dean, The Valkyrie-200