91 Quotes by Daniel Suarez

You taught me everything I need to know; self-reliance, self-respect, community. Just don’t be surprised if I actually put it to use.

What I caution against is any unaccountable concentration of power. And I don’t care whether that’s the government, a corporation, the church, a really bad-ass girl scouts troop, whatever it is.

How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class – not so much to country.

I’ve always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can.

Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. Vikings and Mongols were big on revenue targets, too – but Leland had dispensed with all the tedious invading, and had taken a page out of the Roman playbook by hiring the locals to enslave each other as franchisees.

It’s knowing one’s... limitations... and then ignoring them.

There’s no better time to celebrate friendship than when things are at their worst.

The seat of consciousness – what’s known as ‘sensorium’ – exists partly as an expression of particle entanglement in higher physical dimensions. The human brain is merely a conduit.