The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.
A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
The future is there,” Cayce hears herself say, “looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
And don’t forget to water the fuckin’ goldfish.
His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.
I’m away for a while. But there’s no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull’s tested positive. Twice.
The faces he woke up with in the worlds hotels were like God’s own hood ornaments. Women’s sleeping faces, identical and alone, naked, aimed straight out to the void.
Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese.
Whenever the media do try to pick it up, it slides like a lone noodle from their chopsticks.
Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the surface.
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
We’re living in a future that’s weirder than anybody except possibly.