Kev Rantala > Kev's Quotes

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“I foresee death by culture shock.”
― Woody Allen

“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated with characters coping with the consequences.”
― Frank Daniels III

“DREAMS are not only which you experienced in that sweet night behind the darkness,Dreams are your own,admire,wishing for your future sun rays.... :) :)”
― Lav bamaniya

“«Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it was very exclusive. We met the world’s greatest Futurist there. Dr Gustav Y. Svante. Nobody knows who he is. That’s why he’s the world’s greatest Futurist. He told us... He said that the future was already here, but nobody listens to the future. The future is all around us, but we don’t see the future yet. We don’t hear it or see it, so we can’t tell it.”»”
― Bruce Sterling, Love is Strange

“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.”
“That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»”
― Bruce Sterling, Love is Strange

“To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.”
― Warren Ellis

“Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.”
― Edward Teller

“Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“ In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2”
― Masaki Yamada

“Новое искусство воз- никнет где-то на стыке технологий осознанного сна и гипноза. Художник будущего будет писать человеческие жизни. А потом предлагать – или заставлять других пережить во сне созданный им скрипт, превращая его в полноценный чувственный опыт. Грань между искус- ством и жизнью исчезнет полностью. Мало того, художник сделается подобным Богу. Он сможет решать, что, как и когда произойдет со зрителем, упаковывая в этот принудительный рисунок даже то, что кажется индивидууму всплесками его свободной воли...”
― Виктор Пелевин

“Today's science is tomorrow's technology.”
― Edward Teller, The Legacy of Hiroshima

“after having, for instance, reproduced in a picture the right shoulder or the right ear of a figure, we deem it totally vain and useless to reproduce the left shoulder or the left ear. We do not draw sounds, but their vibrating invervals. We do not paint diseases, but their symtoms and their consequences.”
― F.T Marinetti

“Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and soon we will be bleeding for it. You’re just like the rest of us, Si. Except there’s one thing about you that’s different: We all want to be heroes, but you know you can be one. You know in another life, in an alternate universe, however you want to think of it, you were a hero. You can be one again. Maybe not the same hero, but you have it in you to make the right choices, to make the big sacrifices. That’s a lot of pressure. But it’s a lot more hope than any of the rest of us have. Think about it that way, Simon Lewis, and I think you’re pretty lucky.”
― Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“I now understand that deja vu is the awareness of the simultaneous occurrence of a nearly identical event in an alternate universe as perceived by another version of yourself. That haunting sense of unreality and the flimsiness of time, of identity itself, is a window through which we glimpse another world.”
― David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum