"For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moonâ€™s surface, and that half the peopleâ€™s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly itâ€™s interesting again."

--

Source : "What Is Cyberpunk?". www.rudyrucker.com. February, 1986.

Rudy Rucker

#Moon Quotes #Shopping Quotes #Two Quotes

“We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use”
“I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.”
“New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'”
“War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order”

Source : Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”
“The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism”
“Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.”

Source : "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.
“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .”

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