Jonathan Galloway

“You see, we—all of us—are alike at our core. From the lowest microorganism to the highest form of Sentient, we share the most basic aspects of all living things from protein folds to cellular organization. The secrets lie within the dual nature of intron and exon—expression and suppression and recombination of these—allowing life to seek infinite forms.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Being unable to retrace our steps in Time, we decided to move forward in Space. Shall we never be able to glide back up the stream of Time, and peep into the old home, and gaze on the old faces? Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesigraph are perfected, and some future worker has solved the problem of colour photography, our descendants will be able to deceive themselves with something very like it: but it will be but a barren husk, a soulless phantasm and nothing more. “Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!” —Wordsworth Donisthorpe, inventor of the kinesigraph camera”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“There was something wrong with human emotions. The good ones left you as fast as a sneeze while the bad ones hung around like bronchitis.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Blackout

“The year 2006 turned out to be the apex of user euphoria when Time magazine selected “You” as the Person of the Year, trumpeting the world-changing potential of connected users: “It’s a story about community and collaboration … about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.”
― José van Dijck, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media