The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

- Ken Macleod

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

- Ken Macleod

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

- Ken Macleod

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 work…

- Ken Macleod

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophe…

- Ken Macleod

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

- Ken Macleod

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recogni…

- Ken Macleod

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

- Ken Macleod

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -…

- Ken Macleod