Accelerando
Charles Stross cytaty
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Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 3, “Tangled Up in Grue” (p. 53)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 2, “Going Down to Dunwich” (pp. 42-43)
“I’m only twenty-eight: I’m too young to die and too old to drive fast.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 19)
“Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 18)
The Concrete Jungle (p. 305)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
The Concrete Jungle (p. 275)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
“Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)
Ken MacLeod in Introduction: Charlie’s Demons (p. xvi)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)
A dry chuckle: “I used to try to believe a different one before breakfast every day, you know, just in case Pascal’s wager was right—exploring the phase-space of all possible resurrections, you know? But I think at this point we can agree that Dawkins was right. Human consciousness is vulnerable to certain types of transmissible memetic virus, and religions that promise life beyond death are a particularly pernicious example because they exploit our natural aversion to halting states.”
Źródło: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), pp. 396-397
If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?
Źródło: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147
“Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?”
“Very long-term—at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.”
Źródło: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), pp. 14-15
“Talk you of tradition in middle of singularity.”
Sister Seventh twisted her head around to look out the windows at the foggy evening drizzle beyond. “Perplexity maximizes. Not understand singularity is discontinuity with all tradition? Revolution is necessary; deconstruct the old, ring in the new. Before, I questioned your sapience. Now, your sanity questionable; sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!”
Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 144)
Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 143)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 301)
Źródło: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 17, “Interview with the Domina” (p. 304)
“The number one crime in any age: offending the money.”
Źródło: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 16, “Long-Lost Sibs” (p. 268)
Źródło: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 15, “”Revising My Opinions” (pp. 253-254)
Kontekst: She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”
Źródło: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)
“Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Epilogue, “Debrief” (p. 360)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)
“Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 244)
“Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 40)
“A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 37)