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Iain Banks

"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."

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Donna Grant

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

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Donna Grant

"Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends."

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Donna Grant

"Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everything was automated, and this meant that this behemoth could be efficiently handled by a far less seasoned captain. Besides, hiring mature skippers with actual experience would cost real money. And hey, the computers ran everything anyway " and that's how Bran Johannsen enters this story " as a fine young inexperienced graduate of the Merchant Space Academy in Mars City, who only got his Executive Officer's ticket four short years ago."

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Donna Grant

"We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you."

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Donna Grant

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."

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Donna Grant

"It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks-at least so far-are fairly limited in their awesomeness."

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Donna Grant

"Knowing how things work reduces the effort.This is the fundamental principle of technology."

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Donna Grant

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

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Donna Grant

"Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable."

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Donna Grant

"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"

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Iain Banks
"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."

Society

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Iain Banks
"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

Society

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Iain Banks
"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"

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Iain Banks
"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

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Iain Banks
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."

Technology

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Iain Banks
"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."

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Iain Banks
"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."

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Iain Banks
"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."

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Iain Banks
"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."

Time

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