19 Quotes by Malka Ann Older

Suzuki Todry sits down next to him[an allusion to this?Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey TawdryOoh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy BrownOh, the line forms on the right, babeNow that Macky's back in town— Bertolt Brecht, “Mack the Knife,” 1928]

nationalist governments tend to have trade difficulties.

The percentage of voters who, according to their best Information, would vote to change the entire system, or to threaten it by going to war. It’s a small but not insignificant coalition of haves who think they deserve to be have-mores; nationalists who consider some aspect of identity (ethnicity, religion, place if birth) more important than the government one chooses; and all-out cranks and contrarians. Maybe six to eight percent.

The most important assets for the election systems are trust and routine. Both are badly damaged already;.

This is a micro-democracy, not a representative dictatorship.

There was a study done with minimally educated voters who, given a hypothetical ballot, picked the names of famous serial killers over randomly generated names as well as over those of actual, less well-known politicians.

Systems include their by-products; it all comes from the pattern of incentives they create. It’s how they make people think, how they make people behave.

We find that the people who hate each other that much rarely view the same type of Information.

Privacy is part of autonomy. Deciding what is reported and how much you spend on reporting it is part of governing.