Heavy Weather
Bruce Sterling
Top 10 Best Quotes
“truly elegant design that people always use when they make things to kill each other.”
“but they’d have a cheap laptop and some big chunk of the Library, and they’d crouch under a culvert with it, and peck around on it and fly around in it and read stuff and annotate it and hypertext it, and then they’d come up with some pathetic, shattered, crank, loony, paranoid theory as to what the hell had happened to them and their planet…. It almost beat drugs for turning smart people into human wreckage.”
“You could tell that the plant life here wasn’t at all used to the kindness of rain. The plants weren’t a bit better than humanity, really—just another ugly, nasty, acquisitive species, born to suffer, and expecting little.”
“We had a lot of chances to take steps to save our world, and we blew them all, Jane. All of them. We were greedy and stupid and shortsighted, and we threw all our chances away.”
“Jane hoped that it had all turned out okay for the woman in the end, and that she’d been nice and dead and buried before she realized what her way of life had done to her planet.”
“In fact, Jane kind of hoped that the twentieth-century heiress had really enjoyed herself as she thoughtlessly squandered the planet’s resources and lived like a fattened barnyard animal.”
“Remember, people, a spike is a passing thing, but a lawsuit you always have with you. Over.”
“I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, drunk in a bar. We're professionals, for Christ's sake, and she's just a prole.”
“Gene replacement therapy--they tell me it really hurts. It always hurts... It all hurts. Everything hurts. For as long as you can still feel it.”
“But old people usually seemed pretty embarrassed to bring up such matters right in front of young people. Probably because of the inherent implication that the world’s old people were ecological criminals.”
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