Daniel Suarez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Military #Men #Eight
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Issues #Passing Away #Rising
Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Simple #Perfect #Brain
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?
-- Daniel Suarez

#Heart #People #Patents
Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Your Side #House #Needs
I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Mean #Thinking #Self
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Book #Population #Needs
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Age #Novelists #Degrees
I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Technology #Years #Analysts
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Weather #Pieces #Software
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Civilization #Survival #Strategy
In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seatâ€”and some smartass had sold them guns.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Gun #Games #Numbers
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Sneakers #Office #Use
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
-- Daniel Suarez

#People #Democracy #Too Much
Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or femaleâ€”making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. â€¦ Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any systemâ€”not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it...
-- Daniel Suarez

#Sex #Moving #Mean
But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce...
-- Daniel Suarez

#Taken #Successful #Simple
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Reality #Games #Play
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. â€˜Corporationâ€™ is just the most recent name for it.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Simple #Names #Political
Anything before youâ€™re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the worldâ€™s going to hell.
-- Daniel Suarez

#World #Hell #Proof
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?
-- Daniel Suarez

#Bmw #Two #America
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Reality #Ideas #Facts
I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Country #Technology #Thinking

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