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“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I’m not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Lost Gate

“Context is to data what water is to a dolphin”
― Dan Simmons, Olympos

“I will learn by screwing up.”
― Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three

“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would not understand, so I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

“Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.”
― Gerald Weinberg

“If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.”
― Richard K. Morgan, The Steel Remains

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“A true commitment to the side of Life demands the moral act of Creation”
― Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix Plus

“Life, and intelligence, do not mix very well.”
― Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix Plus