If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it. Daniel Suarez More Quotes by Daniel Suarez More Quotes From Daniel Suarez Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities. Daniel Suarez gamesplayreality I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy. Daniel Suarez democracytoo-muchpeople I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point. Daniel Suarez degreesnovelistsage Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it. Daniel Suarez meansexmoving I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization. Daniel Suarez cellsmeanthinking At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition. Daniel Suarez issuestransitionpassing-away In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns. Daniel Suarez gungamesnumbers I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them. Daniel Suarez readtoohorribletechnology I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business. Daniel Suarez myselftechnologybusinessschool I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy. Daniel Suarez mesocietygovernmentpower I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend. Daniel Suarez problemstechnologysimplepeople The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading. Daniel Suarez viewunderstandefforttechnology We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple. Daniel Suarez findtechnologywanthappy We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble. Daniel Suarez betterjobthinkchange Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.' Daniel Suarez writeaboutgreatwhite When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve. Daniel Suarez namefeelyoupeople If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives. Daniel Suarez youtechnologylifeworld Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed. Daniel Suarez saynewwillsucceed
