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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b63212 | There's a workaround for encroaching phone stupidity. The first thing I did when I got to my place in Austin - an apartment rented for three days over the internet - was connect the thing to wifi. Just like that, my secondary brain got all its little grey cells back. The next few days were all about scurrying from wifi field to field, trying to keep the thing on life support. It's a workaround. We live in a workaround culture. You have to j.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 01c32a1 | an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 01f2ee9 | In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 3fbf0a6 | The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits." Adam" | Warren Ellis | ||
| 6f6c66a | The near future? Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex. And all those genres I listed earlier? Every single year will generate a list of new genres like that. Then every six months. Then every month. Then every week. Pop will fuck and mutate and survive. The new sounds will be everywhere, in too many places for us to notice them all at once. A million glorious bursts of incoherent noise. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ef02fc3 | Look at a Segway and tell me it's not the world's shittiest witch's broomstick. We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work. | Warren Ellis | ||
| a1a718e | Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly;.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0054803 | the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now, | Warren Ellis | ||
| b49f8fa | Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 85122a0 | There are people out there so heavily specialized in wearable technology that they call shirts with networked devices built into them "wearable shirts." They're so deep into their own silo of futurism that they've forgotten how shirts work." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0a66147 | a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone. | humor | Warren Ellis | |
| 861db22 | I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d46414d | She fixed him with a gaze that said that she had looked into the void and that she was really not impressed with it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 21fdb42 | The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity. | Warren Ellis | ||
| f63ddf7 | The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9e38b31 | We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ef36bce | Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| f92bf04 | If Albert Einstein, the last century's very poster boy for the cunning man and the wild-haired magician of science, knew one thing, then it was simply that there was always more to be known. He didn't pridefully condemn dreams of physics and incomplete theories. He pointed off into the future and named the unknown things as, in fact, spooky action at a distance. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 80dbfd4 | Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit. | nun sex | Warren Ellis | |
| 3e17fe7 | Is that what we do? We pitch our tents, do our little clown shows, and then take off up the road to the next town ahead? Leaving our science-fictional debris on the blasted dirt to poison the minds of future generations, like the alien litter in STALKER and ROADSIDE PICNIC. Flying cars rusting out like Saturn Five rockets propped up as roadkill talismans at Kennedy, leaking toxins into the soil. Jetpacks oozing fuel from cracks in their tan.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9323e23 | Benighted infants," Strauss laughed, gesturing at Goldmark to get the coffees. "I'd be amazed if anything in here grew on or near an animal. It's all that printed meat, diddled with by needles." | Warren Ellis | ||
| df4f66f | Yeah, trust the fuckhead. | spider-jerusalem trust | Warren Ellis | |
| a2ee546 | Bukkake," said a voice in my ear. "Multiple ejaculations onto the face. It's the new thing." It was the tattooed girl, crouched behind my chair. "This is the only genuine and authentic Godzilla Bukkake night in America." | Warren Ellis | ||
| d6bed23 | Bloody Wolf Blitzer intoning that a weather bomb is going to detonate over America because the planet hates humans and time is a flat circle. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 7da6b2c | I think super-heroes and religion are indivisible. I think they're indivisible from Superman. | Patrick Meaney | ||
| 2d7a381 | No more circuses. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 3e38ecc | ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT | Warren Ellis | ||
| 5a16a48 | I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills... Take control of your world. | capitalism globalization marxism revolution | Warren Ellis | |
| bde0c17 | Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see? | Warren Ellis | ||
| ea70033 | All people are scum. No matter what they look like. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 8740cf5 | It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe. | news peyote spider-jerusalem | Warren Ellis | |
| 7314992 | After that, he was still. They could hear church bells chiming in the distance. Somewhere Vespers was being rung, people were at Mass, life was going on. Andre had not thought there was a need for words of farewell, not between them. But now he found himself approaching the bed, suddenly afraid that he'd waited too long. "Richard." He held his breath then, until the other man opened his eyes. "Listen to me," he said hoarsely. "You will not .. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 157670c | His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure. | kings middle-ages | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 4e15f39 | She wanted to order him clapped in irons, as he so deserved. But she was stopped by what she saw in the faces of the watching men: disapproval, instinctive and involuntary, but disapproval, nonetheless. They were not comfortable when power was wielded by a woman, not at a man's expense, a man who had just acquitted himself so spectacularly at Lincoln, winning their reluctant respect in a way she knew she never could. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 816e0b8 | She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen, | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| a8b9c3d | There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 0d86707 | It puzzled Maud that her male relatives could not see this. Was it that men could not believe a woman might share their ambitions, their need for power? Eleanor saw herself as more than Henry's queen, mother of his children. First and foremost, she was Duchess of Aquitaine, never doubting that she could have ruled as well as any man and better than most. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 64010b9 | More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester's wife? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| ec97766 | He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 3cbd8a1 | He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and when she glanced in Henry's direction, she held his gaze, a look that was both challenging and enigmatic... He was utterly certain that this was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and no less sure that the French King must be one of God's greatest fools. | fools vibrant | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 75702be | Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 15ee7e2 | Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!"... "I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting," she said. "I'd just rather not reap a crop every year." | harvest humour sex | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| cbf1f16 | when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 41b4158 | The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203, by Judith A. Everard, | Sharon Kay Penman |