James Patrick Kelly > Quotes

“The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.”
― James Patrick Kelly

“This your brain. This is your brain on Facebook. Any questions?”
― James Patrick Kelly

“What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis" -- The Calorie Man”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“People, my god; people. Nature gave them tongues, technology gave them loudspeakers, and they all believe that because they can use both, whatever they say is important.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Mr. Boy

“We're rich. We can afford to hate ourselves.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Mr. Boy

“El problema es que para cuando los profesores han acabado contigo, han arrasado completamente tu creatividad. Habla con los buenos estudiantes de «sobresaliente» y descubrirás que se han olvidado, en primer lugar, de porqué querían ser artistas. Todo lo que saben es reciclar la vieja basura rígida que aprendieron en la escuela.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Solstice

“If we leave the network to fall over slowly, parts of it will stay online for months. Maybe years. And what will run on it? Malware. Worms. Spam. System-processes. Zone transfers. The things we use fall apart and require constant maintenance. The things we abandon don’t get used and they last forever.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

“Hey, you can't live without telling a few lies. At least I don’t discriminate. I’ll lie to anyone, even myself.”
― James Patrick Kelly, Mr. Boy