Ken MacLeod Quotes

Kenneth Macrae MacLeod is a Scottish science fiction writer.

✵ 2. August 1954
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Learning the World
Learning the World
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Famous Ken MacLeod Quotes

““Anyway… I find what you write interesting.”
“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.””

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)

“I take small interest in politics,” he said. “The subject repels me.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 232)

Ken MacLeod Quotes

“(8 hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster)”

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“All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 239)

“I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 17 “Fire in the Sky” (p. 284)

“She knew about these asteroids, of course. It was because she had classified them in the wrong mental category that she hadn’t thought of them.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 249)

“Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 4 “A Moving Point of Light” (p. 51)

“Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 273)

“It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 8 “Security Concerns” (p. 122)

“Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *fucking* weapons.”

USENET posting to rec.sf.arts.fandom http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/browse_frm/thread/303b0da0ab25aee/b12adceacd343279 28 September 2000, in the discussion of Robert A. Heinlein's quote "The cowards never started and the weaklings died on the way." (Expanded Universe, How to be a Survivor in the Atomic Age)
Other sources

“We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.”

“I’m aware of the problems,” she said. “‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 248)

“Anyway…I find what you write interesting.”

“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)

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